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

[Simon Waldman <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> * Simon Waldman (Feb 09, 2005 19:30):
> 
>>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.
>
> Eh, how are you moving these messages?  Are you appending them properly
> to the maildirs?

What maildirs? It's mboxes.
But the answer is that Thunderbird puts them there. For instance, if I 
send a message then Tbird will save a copy into the "Sent" folder on the 
local IMAP server. Or I might use Thunderbird to copy a message from a 
different account to the local IMAP server. In either of these 
situations, offlineimap often chokes at the next sync.

> Why don't you run courier locally?  It's not like it's that bad,

:-) I will try it. I had initially stuck to the basic "imap-2004" 
package because it requires no configuration whatsoever, but "just 
works". I don't know anything about Courier, but I tend to think of it 
is a much more heavyweight system which may require more effort and I'd 
imagine will probably require more memory, etc.

that's just why I didn't try it first - I will try it when I get some 
time to see if it makes all the problems go away.

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