Re: Considering reverting imaplib2.py and IDLE support - need feedback

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Dawson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Well if there is anything that can be done to leave it as an option then 
> that would be great.   I have considered doing the loop - the thing is 
> if someone for example changes their password whilst you are syncing 
> other accounts then offlineimap would crash even before someone else's 
> attachment was downloaded for example.  So I definitely need to do 
> something for trying to isolate stuff a bit... 
> 
> The strange thing I saw was:
> http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~piers/python/imaplib.html
> 
> Quote from end of first paragraph
> " (|imaplib2| can be substituted for |imaplib| in existing clients with 
> no changes in the code.) "
> 
> I'm not familiar with the details of imaplib vs imaplib2 though...

Well then, I guess the question for James is: why did you bring in imaplib2?

I can try ripping out imaplib2 and let all of you that use IDLE test it out.

-- John