Re: 'EOF occurred in violation of protocol' error

["Daniel L. Rall" <dlr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, John Goerzen wrote:
> 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.

I've run into potentially similar transient SSL-related problems using
fetchmail against Google's GMail servers.

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