Re: 'EOF occurred in violation of protocol' error

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 27 November 2007 8:56:07 pm CB wrote:
> On 11/28/07, Tom Purl <tom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I also use Gmail with offlineimap, and am seeing the same problems.  If
> > I re-reun offlineimap, it usually works.
>
> OK, I hadn't found that -- my runs of offlineimap kept stalling at the
> same spot.
>
> In the light of what you said, I've just tried opening the offending
> IMAP folder directly in mutt (which I don't normally do, as this is
> intended as a read-only backup), and navigating around a bit, marking
> a few unread items as 'read', etc. Then re-running offlineimap, it's
> getting further.
>
> I guess that the problem is likely to be a dodgy IMAP implementation
> on google's part?

This EOF error comes from the SSL layer.  It means that it closed the socket 
without closing the SSL session.  Perhaps an inactivity timeout or NAT 
issue.  There is nothing OfflineIMAP can do about this.