I too fell into the trap of copying the man-page's headline. This is especially confusing, since the setting I was using (TTY.TTYUI) is-all caps (so I figured they all were supposed to be all-caps).
Since it is not possible/reasonable to fix the man page, please make offlineimap accept all-caps arguments for the ui setting. Attached is a patch to do just that. I hope you will include it in future releases. Thank you, - Jason
diff --git a/offlineimap/ui/detector.py b/offlineimap/ui/detector.py index 4ec7503..99db613 100644 --- a/offlineimap/ui/detector.py +++ b/offlineimap/ui/detector.py @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ DEFAULT_UI_LIST = ('Curses.Blinkenlights', 'TTY.TTYUI', def findUI(config, chosenUI=None): uistrlist = list(DEFAULT_UI_LIST) + uistrfixcase = {} + for correct in uistrlist: + uistrfixcase[correct.lower()] = correct; namespace={} for ui in dir(offlineimap.ui): if ui.startswith('_') or ui in ('detector', 'UIBase'): @@ -37,6 +40,8 @@ def findUI(config, chosenUI=None): uistrlist = config.get("general", "ui").replace(" ", "").split(",") for uistr in uistrlist: + if uistrfixcase.has_key(uistr.lower()): + uistr = uistrfixcase[uistr.lower()] uimod = getUImod(uistr, config.getlocaleval(), namespace) if uimod: uiinstance = uimod(config)