I switched from IMAP to maildir via offlineimap. So much faster! How are people using offlineimap? Is it always running, or by cron, or in a before-poll?
Excerpts from Grant Hollingworth''s message of Fri Apr 04 03:40:36 +1100 2008:> I switched from IMAP to maildir via offlineimap. So much faster! > > How are people using offlineimap? Is it always running, or by cron, or in a > before-poll?I run mine from cron. 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 Just my two cents. rgh. -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 rgh at neoss.com.au You''re worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I''m worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum !DSPAM:47f5454c18821144792784!
Excerpts from Richard Heycock''s message of Thu Apr 03 14:59:56 -0600 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 aboutI haven''t tried offlineimap yet. I''m using getmail right now, which has gone really smooth. What advantages does offlineimap provide for the sup crowd (there shouldn''t be any changes to the maildir to push back to the imap account, right?) Cam -- Webpipe.net
On 3.4.2008, Grant Hollingworth wrote:> How are people using offlineimap? Is it always running, or by cron, or in a > before-poll?I tend to ssh into wherever I run sup and run screen. I''ve set screen up to start sup and kick off offlineimap. Works like a charm. That way you can poke offlineimap if you want to poll for some reason. Works well from cron as well on my work machine. Marcus
* 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 aboutYeah, 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
* Cameron Matheson [Fri Apr 04 02:56:28 -0400 2008]:> I haven''t tried offlineimap yet. I''m using getmail right now, which has > gone really smooth. What advantages does offlineimap provide for the > sup crowd (there shouldn''t be any changes to the maildir to push back to > the imap account, right?)No changes yet. I''d like to get sup at least marking messages as read in maildir sources.