Re: EOF occurred in violation of protocol

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:55:42AM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote:
> My provider has recently switched to using an IMAP proxy (perdition),
> and since the switch I end up with offlineimap bombing out frequently
> with the error "EOF occurred in violation of protocol". I am quite
> certain that it is related to the proxy, but I am wanting to find out
> what specifically is in error so that I might report it to the authors
> of perdition to improve their software. Is there a way to find out

It means that the remote end has terminated the connection unexpectedly.  In
this case, with SSL, it's a little worse: the conection just went dead;
they didn't close it the proper SSL way.

This is usually indicitive of problems in the server.  Perhaps their
server does not deal well with multiple OfflineIMAP threads.  You may
try limiting OfflineIMAP to one thread (run it with -1).

-- John