I am also experiencing this issue - and I run offlineimap in a similar way: launched from a shell script via cron every five minutes.
My shell script sleeps for 10 and then kills the child offlineimap process if it is still running. This is because of another bug where offlineimap will hang indefinitely if it is unable to reach one of the IMAP servers ( or if my internet connection terminates temporarily ). -- offlineimap constantly goes for a spin consuming 100% cpu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364481 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs