Re: backup and synchronize to fastmail

[Alejandro Jakubi <jakubi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 15 May 2008, John Goerzen wrote:

> > I launch imapfilter on the command line, it prompts me the for the
> > password of the departmental imap server, and after receiving it goes to
> > the background.
>
> That is not quite as practical for OfflineIMAP, since it may need to request
> a password at any time.  Say you launch offlineimap and leave it running for
> a month.  15 days after you launch it, you change your password on the IMAP
> server.  A little later on, you move a whole bunch of mail, and offlineimap
> wants to open another connection to the IMAP server for its multithreaded
> support.  But the password you entered when you started it up no longer
> works, so it needs to prompt you for a password.

This is precisely how I am using imapfilter. I launch it and runs unattended,
in the background, for long periods (about two months in the mean, in general
between reboots of the departmental cluster because of power problems or the
like). I have set it so that it filters every two hours. So, say, every two
hours, during two months, it is using the password that I have given it at
launch.

Of course, if I happen to change my password, I will stop imapfilter and
launch again with the new password. It seems to me something obvious to do.

But I find this operation mode so simple and convenient that I have guessed
that offlineimap works basically the same.

And the case of password in the configuration file of offlineimap seems to me
to be more or less the same. At least I should edit the configuration file,
and I do not know whether I should relaunch also offlineimap to make it read
it.

> However, patches to go into the background after reading the password would
> be accepted.

Here I cannot help, but I hope that such a patch were available as soon as
possible.

Regards, Alejandro Jakubi