Re: [OfflineIMAP] #20: Memory leak on Mac OS X ?

["Boris Gordon" <boris.gordon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Vincent Beffara <vbeffara+ml@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I'm using the Python25 package from Fink (package version 1:2.5.2-1).
>

Fine.  I've been trying to get it going on either Apple's 2.5.1 or macport's
2.5.2.


>
> > Also has anyone else managed to work around this bug ? It's the only
> thing
> > between me and email bliss.
>
> All I can say is that it fixed the crash on the one reproducible
> test-case I had (one single 5MB e-mail on a local IMAP server on my
> laptop). I essentially slice the download into 1MB chunks, but maybe
> this is too large already ... especially with parallel connections.
>

Oh oh.
Has anyone had any success on Mac OS X over the net rather than local?

BTW that's only for plain old IMAP, not this fancy schmancy IMAPS which
> I can't test at the moment.
>

... or with IMAPS ?
I don't think Gmail offers anything other than IMAP ssl.


> I guess the morale of the story is, hopefully Python itself (if not
> Darwin ?) will be patched soon.
>

I'm assuming the python people know about this at least ...
Frustrating as I've only just discovered offlineimap and it totally solves
my problem, if only I could get it working.

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Boris Gordon