Re: "Can't create mailbox node" with fastmail.fm IMAP <-> IMAP

[Simon Waldman <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon Waldman wrote:

>>Is /home/simon/Mail/INBOX a directory or a file?  If a directory, can
>>you show me an ls -la of it?
> 
> 
> It's a directory. It only exists, AFAIK, because of Fastmail (which is
> Cygnus) putting everything under INBOX/whatever, and me not setting up
> any translations. Therefore offlineimap created the INBOX directory on
> the local IMAP server.

FWIW, and for the benefit of the archives, I have got things working 
after a fashion.

First I did the name translation to stop everything being under INBOX. 
This solved the first problem that I was having. It still crashed 
frequently though.

I then made sure the local IMAP server was set to maxconnections = 1, 
keepconnectionopen = no.

This got it working, after a fashion.

It is, however, still very unstable. If I do something as audacious as 
moving a message onto the local server from elsewhere, without it having 
come via the remote system, offlineimap tends to crash on the next sync. 
This is often a UID problem. It may always be a UID problem for all I 
know, but it's not always obvious. Anyway, it seems quite plausible that 
this is simply because the local IMAP server is broken.

When I get some time, I'll try installing Courier and see if that's better.

THanks to everybody who offered help.

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