From c7894a01f01217ccb51d5659b7dff0da13047359 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:54:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Instead of blowing up when the account name is missing,
 display a useful error message that gives the correct account names.

---
 offlineimap/init.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/offlineimap/init.py b/offlineimap/init.py
index 45a5773..0780988 100644
--- a/offlineimap/init.py
+++ b/offlineimap/init.py
@@ -113,6 +113,14 @@ def startup(versionno):
 
     syncaccounts = {}
     for account in activeaccounts:
+        if account not in allaccounts:
+            if len(allaccounts) == 0:
+                errormsg = 'The account "%s" does not exist because no accounts are defined!'%account
+            else:
+                errormsg = 'The account "%s" does not exist.  Valid accounts are:'%account
+                for name in allaccounts.keys():
+                    errormsg += '\n%s'%name
+            ui.terminate(1, errortitle = 'Unknown Account "%s"'%account, errormsg = errormsg)
         syncaccounts[account] = allaccounts[account]
 
     server = None