OfflineIMAP and OS X 10.6

["T. Joseph Carter" <carter.tjoseph@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Tis the season for us Mac users to discover all the new fun things 
that can happen when you start multithreading ... everything.  It 
turns out that OfflineIMAP manages to somehow cause an import from 
locale to happen indirectly in a thread other than the main one.  The 
result is a crash of Python.

The actual problem and best solution will be debated by others.  I 
contend that if Python itself is crashing, there's a bug in Python 
itself that needs addressing.  While this is explored and debated, a 
simple workaround exists.

The script that goes into bin contains:

        from offlineimap import init

Before that, add:

        from locale import *

Problem "solved" (until someone else solves it properly.)

Joseph

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