[sup-talk] offlineimap

[Grant Hollingworth]

* Richard Heycock [Thu Apr 03 16:59:56 -0400 2008]:

> Having said that offlineimap causes me a great deal of pain; when it
> works it works well but when it doesn't (which is fairly often) it's a
> pain. Oh and it won't tell you what the problem is :-( Unfortunately
> there doesn't really seem to be much else about

Yeah, I don't think I've seen any error messages... just backtraces.

The only big problem I've had is with a memory error when copying large
messages. The problem is known [1] and fixed [2] in Python, but the current
stable version (2.5.2) doesn't include the fix.

I made the two one-line changes myself and now offlineimap is happy:
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release25-maint/Lib/imaplib.py?rev=61007&r1=51333&r2=61007
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release25-maint/Lib/socket.py?rev=61009&r1=54544&r2=61009

[1] http://software.complete.org/software/issues/show/20
[2] http://bugs.python.org/issue1389051