Re: Returning to sslerror: (8, 'EOF occurred in violation of protocol')

[Loui Chang <louipc.ist@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:25:29PM -0600, Paul Hinze wrote:
> While for the most part OfflineIMAP does exactly what I need, for both
> of these accounts (only one thread running) I regularly experience all
> out crashes with the following error:
> 
> > sslerror: (8, 'EOF occurred in violation of protocol')
> 
> So, from what I gather, this error has to do with the remote server not
> closing a TLS connection properly.  Now, I know that neither GMail IMAP
> nor Exchange IMAP is exactly the paragon implementation of the protocol,
> and I know that John Goerzen has repeatedly explained that this is not
> the fault of OfflineIMAP.
> 
> Reading this on python-list makes me wonder if the error really warrants
> a program crash though:

I'd say that there's very little that should warrant a crash, and that
good software should be able to recover from a bad state. It shouldn't
mask that state though, so that the user knows what's going on.