Re: 1 byte files?

[Micah Anderson <micah@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I had this problem the other day, it was caused by incorrect
permissions on the maildir files on the IMAP side of things. I had
restored mail into the new directory with the wrong owner, the files
were created (with no contents) into the cur directory, and then when
I sync'd there were a bunch of 1 byte files. 

I am guessing there are a couple different ways that this problem
could manifest, so this may not be your solution, and the debugging
will tell all.

micah


On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, John Goerzen wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:16:25PM -0800, Stephen Lau wrote:
> > So I just tried using offlineimap, and it went and synched up with all
> > the mbox's I have on my server succesfully, but when I tried to open
> > it up in Mutt, all I see are empty messages with no headers or
> > anything.
> > 
> > Looking in the ~/Mail directory, everyfile offlineimap created is only
> > 1 byte.  Any ideas what went wrong, and what I can do to debug this?
> 
> I've heard this problem reported before, though I think you are the
> first that has been able to reproduce it at will, which is great.
> 
> Take the just-release version, 3.0.8, and run it like this:
> 
> offlineimap -d imap -1
> 
> Make sure to save the log file somewhere.  Then, edit out any
> confidential information like passwords and send it to me.  With luck,
> I'll be able to see what's going on there.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
>