OfflineIMAP 3.99.6 released

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

At long last, here is OfflineIMAP 3.99.6.

The big news for this release is that the synchronization process is now
account-centric.  That means that each account can have its own refresh
interval, can be refreshed independantly from the user interfaces, and in
the future, can catch failures and handle them separately from other
accounts.

The even bigger news (grin) is the new Curses.Blinkenlights interface.  It's
even better than watching 12 hours of Iron Chef on New Year's Day.  It's
better than James Bond's latest car.  It's better than..... well, you get
the idea.  Check it out :-)

Other news: easier (only six-line) startup, various bugfixes, etc.

Here's the complete changelog:

  * This a 4.0 TRACK release, and may be unstable or in flux!
  * Completed work to make both graphical interfaces work
    with a threaded Tcl/Tk Tkinter.  A threaded Tcl/Tk actually makes
    life MORE difficult for multi-threaded Python programs, argh.
  * Now properly handles folder names that contain parenthesis.  Used
    patch from Kyler Laird in
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=173895.
    Closes: #173895.
  * Changed to a more account-centric behavior.  The refresh time is now
    a per-account variable.  Implemented new account classes.  User
    interfaces must now be updated to take advantage of this.
    *** NOTE *** THIS CHANGE BREAKS COMPATIBILITY WITH OLDER VERSIONS.
  * New color console interface: Curses.Blinkenlights!  Try it out!
    Closes: #167357.
  * Due to possibly having one account sleep while another is reading a
    password, and other tricky situations, support for nice updating and
    cancelling of a sleep in TTY.TTYUI has been removed.  (Sleep will
    still work; there is just no way to cancel it early.)
    .
    However, this is not going to be a huge problem because the new Curses
    Blinkenlights interface has this support, and does it a lot better than
    TTY.TTYUI ever could have.
  * Provided config file default for many more options.  Closes: #168219.
  * New example file offlineimap.conf.minimal showing you how to get started
    fast.  It uses only 6 lines to set up an account.

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John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>                       www.complete.org