On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:19:05PM -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > I upgraded uw-imapd to unstable and get the same error. The tail of the > output with "-d imap -1" are below, and the full output (300K) is at > http://andrew.pimlott.net/tmp/offlineimap_debug. It's not obvious to me > why the sequence of commands would cause uw-imapd to lose the mailbox > lock. This is a test mailbox with nothing else accessing it. Do you > have any ideas? Does it have to do with offlineimap making two separate > connections?
Not if it still happens with -1, which should cause OfflineIMAP to run in single-threaded mode. UW-IMAPd is known to do weird things like this, unfortunately. I'd say about 2/3 of the problems people have with OfflineIMAP are with UW-IMAPd servers. > I think I am going to replace uw-imapd anyway. Is there an imapd you > recommend for light use with offlineimap, preferably supporting mbox? I have always run Courier with good luck, though I don't believe it supports mbox. I think pretty much any imap server will work better than uw-imapd. I've heard of a few problems with bincimap, but other than that, most work just fine with OfflineIMAP right out of the box. > Another problem with uw-imapd is that whenever I access a mailbox via > IMAP, even if I do not save any changes, it saves the mbox changing > message statuses from "N" to "O". I would like to imapd to leave > messages in the "N" status unless my mail client changes it. This may or may not be possible, depending on your specific IMAP server. OfflineIMAP certainly takes every effort to avoid changing flags on messages during a download, but some IMAP servers will treat any download as a read. In any case, once a message is read on a local client, that does change a flag that OfflineIMAP will propogate back, and it should result in the "N" and "O" being removed. Alternatively, if you use IMAP or OfflineIMAP clients for all your mailbox accesses, you should have no trouble (IMAP does not differentiate between N and O). -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
