We usually mutate some exceptions to OfflineImapError() and it is
a whole lot better if such exception will show up with the original
traceback, so all valid occurrences of such mutations were transformed
to the 3-tuple form of "raise". Had also added coding guidelines
document where this re-raise strategy is documented.
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
- Multi-line documentation for functions and methods
now has ending triple-double-quotes on an own line,
as per PEP 257.
- Added documentation and comments to almost all functions
and methods.
- Added stub implementations for getconfig() and getsection()
inside CustomConfig.ConfigHelperMixin to provide sane
run-time diagnostics for classes that doesn't implement them.
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
For cases like
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.offlineimap.general/6468
it is beneficial to see that folder name was translated and the result
of this translation on a single line: having log like
{{{
Folder Boring/Wreck [acc: tmarble@info9.net]:
Syncing Boring/Breck: Gmail -> Maildir
}}}
with translated name on the "Folder" line and original one on the
"Syncing" line isn't very intuitive.
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
Make external API of class/module to be smaller, explicitely mark
all internal functions. Also annotate methods that are implemented
as the part of the parent class interface.
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
It is called localfolders and holds expanded name for the same
variable for the local repository of the account that is being
processed.
GitHub issue: https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/issues/21
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
This eases testing of option values inside the code. This instance
is implemented as the read-only copy of the obtained 'options' object,
so callers won't be able to modify its contents.
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
The problem lies in the fact that offlineimap.folder.Base's method
syncmessagesto_copy() uses threaded code everytime it is suggested by
the derived class's suggeststhreads() (currently, only IMAP does this
suggestion), but offlineimap/init.py will not spawn the
exitnotifymonitorloop() from offlineimap.threadutil.
The root cause is that ExitNotifyThread-derived threads need
offlineimap.threadutil's exitnotifymonitorloop() to be running the
cleaner for the exitthreads Queue(), because it fills the queue via
the run() method from this class: it wants to put() itself to the
Queue on exit, so when no exitnotifymonitorloop() is running, the
queue will fill up. And if this thread is an instance of
InstanceLimitedThread that hits the limit on the number of threads,
then it will hold the instancelimitedsems[] semaphore will prevent
other InstanceLimitedThread()s of the same name to pass its start()
method.
The fix is to avoid using threaded code if we're running
single-threaded.
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@codelabs.ru>
Obtained-from: X-Ryl669 <boite.pour.spam@gmail.com>
Previous commit e7ca5b25cb combined
checks for filtered folders in one place. However, it turns out there
was a reason to have them separate. getfolder() on a non-existent Maildir
fails and there might not be an equivalent local Maildir folder for a
filtered out IMAP folder.
Fix this by first checking if the remote folder should be filtered, and
only then retrieving the local folder (which should exist then).
This bug was found by our test suite!
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
- Factor out the code to find a local folder given a remote folder
Patch by Dave, split and modified by Sebastian.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
If we ask twice for a LocalStatusFolder via getfolder(), we would
get a newly created instance each time. This can lead to problems,
as e.g. write locks protecting files only work within the same Folder
instance. Make it so, that we cache all Folder instances that we have
asked for and hand back the existing one if we ask again for it,
rather than recreate a new instance.
Also, make getfolders() a noop for LocalStatus. We attempted to
derive the foldername from the name of the LocalStatusfile. However,
this is not really possible, as we do file name mangling
(".$" -> "dot", "/" -> ".") and there is no way to get the original folder
name from the LocalStatus file name anyway.
This commit could potentially solve the "file not found" errors, that people
have been seeing with their LocalStatusCache files. If we have 2
instances of a LocalStatusFolder pointing to the same file, our locking
system would not work.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
If we throw an OfflineImapError in case of the Repository()
initialization, we display the nice error message and exit rather
than bomb out with a traceback. Misconfiguring a repository name in
the configuration file is now nicely pointed out to the user.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
1) Set attribute self.dryrun depending on whether we are in dry-run mode.
2) Don't actually call hooks in --dry-run (just log what you would
invoke
3) Don't write out the mbnames file in --dry-run mode.
Repository, and Folder levels still need to be protected in dry-run mode
as of now.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
We do not use ui.locked() anymore to output an error message, the text comes
directly from the exception.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Rename getuidvalidity -> get_uidvalidity and cache the IMAP result.
1) Start modernizing our function names using more underscores
2) IMAPs implementation of get_uidvalidity was removing the UIDVALIDITY result
from the imaplib2 result stack, so subsequent calls would return "None".
As various functions can invoke this, this led to some errors that we
avoid by caching the current UIDVALIDITY value in the Folder instance.
There are more simplifications and improvements to be made.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Rather than to write out the nametrans'lated folder names for mbnames,
we now write out the local untransformed box names. This is generally
what we want. This became relevant since we support nametrans rules on
the local side since only a short time. Reported by Paul Collignan.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Remove the old global locking system. We lock only the accounts that we
currently sync, so you can invoke OfflineImap multiple times now as long
as you sync different accounts. This system is compatible with all
releases >= 6.4.0, so don't run older releases simultanous to this one.
This mostly reverts commit 0d95651417,
disabling the old global lock system that we had in parallel to the new one.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
1) Rename the unintuitive repository.syncfoldersto() to
sync_folder_structure()
2) We were checking if the local repository is readonly and then turning
off any folder creation. But as we can create folders on a remote
repository too, we need to be more fine grained here. Just don't create
a folder on the repository that is marked readonly=True.
This still does not do away with the error message that one currently
gets on missing local folders.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Previously, we would simply bail out in an ugly way, potentially leaving
temporary files around etc, or while writing status files. Hand SIGINT
and SIGTERM as an event to the Account class, and make that bail out
cleanly at predefined points. Stopping on ctrl-c can take a few seconds
(it will e.g. finish to transfer the ongoing message), but it will shut
down cleanly.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
We need the list of folders and the folder delimiter, but it was not
always retrieved early enough. E.g. when doing IMAP<->IMAP sync and the
local IMAP being readonly, we would bunk out with a mysterious error
message become repository.getsel() would still return None.
This commit fixes this error.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
The remote|local|statusrepo is an anttribute of each SyncableAccount()
anyway, so we don't need to pass it in, we can simply get it from the
Account().
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
All ExitNotifyThreads and InstanceLimitThreads are setDaemon(True) in their
constructor, so there is no need to do that again in the code.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Logging was flawed as the output was e.g. heavily buffered and people
complained about missing log entries. Fix this by making use of the
standard logging facilities that offlineimap offers.
This is one big ugly patch that does many things. It fixes the
Blinkenlights backend to work again with the logging facilities.
Resize windows and hotkeys are still not handled absolut correctly, this
is left for future fixing. THe rest of the backends should be working fine.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
This outputs a handy summary of your server configuration and version
strings etc, which is useful for bug reporting.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
If we create a new folder we would previously not update our folder
list, which led to us skipping the synchronization of those new folders
during the initial run (subsequent runs would pick it up).
Invalidate the folder cache when we create a folder during folder
structure sync. Regetting the whole list from an IMAP server might be
slightly suboptimal from a performance point, but it is easy and will
lead to consistent results. Hopefully we will not have to create new
folders on each new run.
Reported-by: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Modify the UI:acct and acctdone functions to keep tab of the time
inbetween. Put self.ui.acct() and acctdone() at the right places in
accounts.py so that the timing happens at the right places.
While modifying that loop, flatten the nested try: try: except: finally:
constructs, we require python 2.5 now which copes with that.
At the end of each account sync you will now see something like:
*** Finished account 'test' in 0:05
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Thread names are used to determine the logging header in the TTY ui. A
recent change made them too terse (basically only changing the account
name and not the folder names). Unbreak.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
When syncfolder() fails, we output an error message containing the
foldername per the localfolder variable. However, the localfolder
variable is assigned inside our try: block and when the error occurs
there, we will have no localfolder variable to use for output. This
caused the errormsg to cause an Exception itself which unhelpfully
distracts from the root cause of the error.
Reconstruct the folder name in a bit more complex way, but in a way so
it is guaranteed to work (by relying on parameters passed in to the
function).
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
This variable shows if this folder should be synced or is disabled due to
a folderfilter statement. This lets us distinguish between a non-existent
folder and one that has been filtered out. Previously any filtered folder
would simply appear to be non-existing.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
We simply lock OfflineImap the same global way that we have always done
in addition to the previously implemented per-account lock. We can keep
both systems in parallel and then after a few stable releases, drop the
old-style global lock. by reverting this patch
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Previously, we were simply locking offlineimap whenever it was
running. Howver there is no reason why we shouldn't be able to invoke it
in parallel, e.g. to synchronize several accounts in one offlineimap
each.
This patch implements the locking per-account, so that it is possible to
sync different accounts at the same time. If in refresh mode, we will
attempt to loop three times before giving up.
This also fixes Debian bug #586655
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
The readonly feature was introduced to safeguard repositories from
accidental modifications. Unfortunately, my patch treated the readonly
setting as a string and not as a boolean, so if *anything* was set in
the configuration file as 'readonly', this value evaluated to True
Fortunately this was safe, we never treated a repository that we wanted
read-only as read-write. We always treated them readonly if something
was configured as "readonly=..." even if that was False.
The fix is simply to use getconfboolean() rather than getconf() which
checks for True/False/On/Off/yes/no/1/0 and hands back the correct boolean.
Reported-by: Tomasz Nowak <nowak2000@poczta.onet.pl>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Rather than using ui.warn, use ui.error() which outputs Exceptions to
the error log, saving them to a stack, so we get notified again at the
end of the sync run.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
The SigListener class was used to queue folders that we need to sync and
to receive "resync" and "abort" signals. It was undocumented and weird
and we had to pass "siglisteners" through the whole program.
Simply do away with it, and make 2 functions in the Account() class:
set_abort_event and get_abort_event which can be used to set and check
for such signals. This way we do not need to pass siglisteners all over
the place. Tested Blinkenlights and TTYUI uis to make sure that SIGUSR1
and SIGUSR2 actually still work.
Document those signals in MANUAL.rst. They were completly undocumented.
This simplifies the code and interdependencies by passing less stuff
around. Removes an undocumented and weirdly named class.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Throw an OfflineImapError when SELECTing a folder is unsuccessful and
bail out with a FOLDER serverity. In accounts.py catch all
OfflineImapErrors and either just log the error and skip the folder or
bubble it up if it's severe.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Use two %s in the message for both string parameters.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
This should get rid of intermittent network failures, but lets us bail
out on permanent errors.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
By aborting the account syncing, the looping and logging an error
message. We will introduce a ui.error() rather than a ui.warn() function
which saves all Exceptions in a Queue and outputs them at the end of the
program.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Currently, account.syncrunner() has 2 separate duplicated code paths
depending on whether we want to autorefresh after some waiting perios
or not. Unify those code paths by setting "looping = False" in case
self.refeshperiod == 0 after the first run. Behavior is identical to
before.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
This commit enables true 1-way syncing between repositories. This has
often been demanded for backup purposes when you do not want to cause
accidental modifications of your backup that would be propagated to the
other side.
This has been implemented by allowing to configure a Repository as
'readonly' to forbid any modification on it.
'readonly' applies to all the type of repositories.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Improve the code documentation (still much more to do) and also add some
more meat to the structure of the developer documentation.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
in accounts.sync() we would holdordropconnections() after each sync. But
depending on the repository configuration that might imply that
offlineimap tries to keep the same connections. But when a sync failed,
e.g. after a user had his computer suspended, it might be that our
connections that we have are worthless. So definitely drop them after a
failed sync.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
uncritical patch, but we can make the code a bit shorter so why not.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
So we can simply hand an account instance to error messages rather than
having to call Account().getname() all the time.
This is not used yet.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Without this, trying to Ctrl-C out of offlineimap will go into a hang.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Glasser-Camp <ethan@betacantrips.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
All other instances were converted to format crash output including a
stacktrace, but this one seems to have been left out. Make Exceptions
print their stacktrace here too.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Rather than always having to call len(getmessagelist.keys()) as was done
before. No functional change, just nicer looking code. Also the SQLite
backend or other backends could implement more efficient implementations.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Previously we would output:
Folder sync sspaeth.de[INBOX.INBOX201004]:
Syncing INBOX.INBOX201004: IMAP -> Maildir
Folder sync sspaeth.de[INBOX.INBOX201006]:
Syncing INBOX.INBOX201006: IMAP -> Maildir
Folder sync sspaeth.de[INBOX.INBOX201009]:
Syncing INBOX.INBOX201009: IMAP -> Maildir
which is very repetitive and cluttered. By naming the folder sync
threads just according to the account and not the folder, the output
looks much nicer:
Folder sync [sspaeth.de]:
Syncing INBOX.INBOX201004: IMAP -> Maildir
Syncing INBOX.INBOX201006: IMAP -> Maildir
Syncing INBOX.INBOX201009: IMAP -> Maildir
If syncing multiple accounts in parallel, we will still get headers
indicating the account:
Folder sync [sspaeth.de]:
Syncing INBOX: IMAP -> Maildir
Syncing INBOX.INBOX201006: IMAP -> Maildir
Folder sync [gmail]:
Syncing INBOX: IMAP -> Maildir
This is a small fix that makes the output much nicer in my opinion.
Also don't output the thread name if we are in the MainThread, e.g. when
we output the initial offlineimap banner.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
The previous syncing strategy was doing more than we needed to and was a
bit underdocumented. This is an attempt to clean it up.
1) Do away with the previous different code paths depending on
whether there is a LocalStatus file or not (the isnewfolder() test). We
always use the same strategy now, which makes the strategy easier to
understand. This strategy is simply:
a) Sync remote to local folder first
b) Sync local to remote
Where each sync implies a 4 pass strategy which does basically the same
as before (explained below).
2) Don't delete messages on LOCAL which don't exist on REMOTE right at
the beginning anymore. This prevented us e.g. from keeping local
messages rather than redownloading everything once LocalStatus got
corrupted or deleted. This surprised many who put in an existing local
maildir and expected it to be synced to the remote place. Instead, the
local maildir was deleted. This is a data loss that actually occured to
people!
3) No need to separately sync the statusfolder, we update that one
simultanously with the destfolders...
3) Simplified the sync function API by only taking one destdir rather
than a list of destdirs, we never used more anyway. This makes the code
easier to read.
4) Added plenty of code comments while I was going through to make sure
the strategy is easy to understand.
-----------------------------------------
Pass1: Transfer new local messages
Upload msg with negative/no UIDs to dstfolder. dstfolder should
assign that message a new UID. Update statusfolder.
Pass2: Copy existing messages
Copy messages in self, but not statusfolder to dstfolder if not
already in dstfolder. Update statusfolder.
Pass3: Remove deleted messages
Get all UIDS in statusfolder but not self. These are messages
that we have locally deleted. Delete those from dstfolder and
statusfolder.
Pass4: Synchronize flag changes
Compare flags in self with those in statusfolder. If msg has a
valid UID and exists on dstfolder (has not e.g. been deleted
there), sync the flag change to dstfolder and statusfolder.
The user visible implications of this change should be unnoticable
except in one situation:
Blowing away LocalStatus will not require you to redownload ALL of
your mails if you still have the local Maildir. It will simply recreate
LocalStatus.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
A Repository() returns the correctly instanciated dervivate of a
BaseRepository, depending on the parameters passed to it. The returned
instance is eg an ImapRepository(). This makes the code look nicer,
and we have less functions lying around outside of classes (no more
global LoadRepository() function).
This will also enable us to conveniently hand back a
LocalStatusRepository based on SQLITE rather than plain text, if the
user configures this to be the experimental and optional backend
(once it exists).
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
AccountSynchronizationMixin was never used on its own and it is a very
confusing class until you understand what it is used for. (It
complemented the Account() class with a few methods to make Account()
syncable.
But we use the SyncableAccount class anyway, so merge the former Mixin'
methods directly in there.
This does away with a class that is not directly used, and was a case of
over-object-orientation which confuses more than it helps.
Touched up code documentation while going through the file.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
"mailboxes" is defined global and set to an empty list, but never used
from anywhere within offlineimap. So let us just delete it.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Previously we did not catch KeyboardInterrupts explicitly as all of the
code was executed in forked child threads which would never receive
Ctrl-c exceptions. With the upcoming single threaded modus, this code
can be run in the main thread however, so we need to take care of
KeyboardInterrupts explicitly. As this is pretty highlevel code, we also
protect against receiving a SystemExit exception which is raised e.g. in
the ui.terminate() code by calling sys.exit().
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
The latter is shorter and looks nicer. UIBase was a very weird class
name for something that is "user visible". We don't need to use (or
see) it from higher level code for most of the code now.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Straightforward reformatting of the Error output to look nicer on the eyes.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Python 2.4 doesn't allow try...except...finally clauses, see PEP
341. Also, yield statements inside try...finally is not allowed. The
commit changes the logic to no longer use those syntactical features.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <ni.s@laposte.net>
Dear All,
I have made the attached patch to try and make offlineimap a bit more
stable in challenging situations. It's extremely useful in slow
connection environments - but sometimes if one account had the wrong
password or the connection went down then unfortunately the whole
program would crash.
I have tested this on our connection and tried throwing at it just about
every situation - connection, up down, up, down again, change password,
error whilst copying one message, etc. I have been running this patch
for the last 5 days or so syncing 6 accounts at the moment... It seems
to work and stay alive nicely (even if your connection does not)...
Hope that this can go in for the next release... Please let me know if
anyone notices any problems with this...
Regards,
-Mike
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From 1d6777cab23637eb830031c7cab0ae9b8589afd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mike <mike@mikelaptop.(none)>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:37:59 +0430
Subject: [PATCH] This patch attempts to introduce a little more error handling - e.g.
if one account has an error because of a changed password or something
that should not affect the other accounts.
Specifically:
If one sync run has an issue this is in a try-except clause - if it
has an auto refresh period the thread will sleep and try again - this
could be quite useful in the event of the connection going down for a
little while, changed password etc.
If one folder cannot be created an error message will be displayed through
the UI and the program will continue (e.g. permission denied to create a folder)
If one message does not want to copy for whatever resaon an error message
will be displayed through the UI and at least the other messages will
be copied
If one folder run has an exception then the others will still run
Dear All,
Attached is the patch that I have developed to provide maxage and
maxsize options. You can thus sync only the last x days of messages and
exclude large messages. All details in the attached git file.
Regards,
-Mike
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From 04fead2b46a79675a5b29de6f2b4088b9c9448e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mike <mike@mikelaptop.(none)>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:00:49 +0430
Subject: [PATCH] Patch to provide maxage and maxsize account options to exclude old/large messages
This is designed to make offlineimap even better for low bandwidth connections.
maxage allows you to specify a number of days and only messages within
that range will be considered by offlineimap for the sync. This can be
useful if you would like to start using offlineimap with a large
existing account and do not want to import large archives of mail.
maxsize allows you to specify the maximum size of a message to consider so
that you can exclude messages with large attachments etc.
In both cases the cachemessagelist function of the folder was modified to ignore
messages that do not meet the criteria. If the criteria are not specified
then the existing code will be executed the same as before. If a message
does not meet the criteria it will be as though this message does not exist
- offlineimap will completely ignore it. It will not have flags updated,
it will not be deleted, it will not be considered at all.
When operating against an IMAP repository a server side search function
is used. This of course requires support for server side search.
I have tested this with either option, no options etc. against IMAP, Maildir
and Gmail. I have run variations of this patch here for the last 3 weeks or
so syncing about 4 accounts normally.
This reverts commit 220db8a77d.
From: Daniel Jacobowitz
Date: July 17, 2009
The documentation may have been unclear, but quick never worked the
way this patch changes it. My installed offlineimap does one sync
every $autorefresh minutes, and the $quick'th one is a full sync. All
the others are quick. Now it's going to do a full sync every
$autorefresh minutes and a ludicrous number of $quick syncs.
-- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
Hello John,
The attached patch makes quick synchronization work again (according to
the documentation), so there are <quick> quick synchronizations
performed between full synchronizations.
Thanks,
Michal
Here's the way I'd like to use offlineimap on my laptop:
1. Have a regular cron job running infrequently. The cron job
checks to see
if I'm online, plugged in, and that no other copy of offlineimap is
running. If
all of these conditions are satisfied, it runs offlineimap just once:
"offlineimap -o -u Noninteractive.Quiet"
2. When I start up mutt, I do it by calling a wrapper script that
delays
until cron-started copies of offlineimap have finished, then starts
offlineimap
on its regular, stay-alive and keep checking schedule. When I quit
mutt, the
wrapper script tells offlineimap to stop.
This way I get frequent regular checks while I have mutt running, but
I don't
waste my battery/cpu checking frequently for mail when I'm not
interested in
it.
To make this work, though, it'd be nicer if it were easier to tell
offlineimap,
from the outside, things like "terminate cleanly now" and "when you've
finished
synching, then terminate instead of sleeping and synching again."
OK, to put my money where my mouth is, I attach two patches against
offlineimap
6.0.3.
The first, "cleanup.patch", cleans up a few spots that tend to throw
exceptions
for me as offlineimap is exiting from a KeyboardInterrupt.
The second adds signaling capabilities to offlineimap.
* sending a SIGTERM tells offlineimap to terminate immediately but
cleanly,
just as if "q" had been pressed in the GUI interface
* sending a SIGUSR1 tells every account to do a full sync asap: if
it's
sleeping, then wake up and do the sync now. If it's mid-sync, then
re-synch
any folders whose syncing has already been started or completed, and
continue
to synch the other, queued but not-yet-synched folders.
* sending a SIGHUP tells every account to die as soon as it can (but
not
immediately: only after finishing any synch it's now engaged in)
* sending a SIGUSR2 tells every account to do a full sync asap (as
with
SIGUSR1), then die
It's tricky to mix signals with threads, but I think I've done this
correctly.
I've been using it now for a few weeks without any obvious
problems. But I'm passing it
on so that others can review the code and test it out on their
systems. I developed the
patch when I was running Python 2.5.2, but to my knowledge I don't use
any Python 2.5-specific
code. Now I'm using the patch with Python 2.6.
Although I said "without any obvious problems," let me confess that
I'm
seeing offlineimap regularly choke when I do things like this: start
up
my offlineimap-wrapped copy of mutt, wait a while, put the machine to
sleep (not sure if offlineimap is active in the background or idling),
move to a different spot, wake the machine up again and it acquires a
new network, sometimes a wired network instead of wifi. Offlineimap
doesn't like that so much. I don't yet have any reason to think the
problems here come from my patches. But I'm just acknowledging them,
so
that if others are able to use offlineimap without any difficulty in
situations like I described, then maybe the fault is with my patches.
From Jim Pryor
The first, "cleanup.patch", cleans up a few spots that tend to throw
exceptions for me as offlineimap is exiting from a KeyboardInterrupt.
This should improve power-management abilities some more
The catch is that we can't wait any longer for the kathread to
terminate. We were waiting for this in some cases. This is probably
not a big deal.
fixes deb#434074
fixes#66
This involves several changes at different places:
- syncfoldersto() takes statusfolder as an argument, and returns the
list of new folders and the list of folders that should be ingnored,
typically those that were deleted. Warns the user about folders that
are present only on one side and are not synced.
- syncfoldersto() is called both ways, and on folder creation
forgetfolders() is used to rebuild the list and take the new creation
into account. Probably not the most efficient, since it involves
talking to the IMAP server again, but it will rarely be used anyway.
- Locally created folders are treated separately in the synchronization,
namely the local messages are uploaded and then the normal sync still
occurs. If the same folder is created on both sides and contains
messages on both sides, a two-way sync occurs.
This involves several changes at different places:
- syncfoldersto() takes statusfolder as an argument, and returns the
list of new folders and the list of folders that should be ingnored,
typically those that were deleted. Warns the user about folders that
are present only on one side and are not synced.
- syncfoldersto() is called both ways, and on folder creation
forgetfolders() is used to rebuild the list and take the new creation
into account. Probably not the most efficient, since it involves
talking to the IMAP server again, but it will rarely be used anyway.
- Locally created folders are treated separately in the synchronization,
namely the local messages are uploaded and then the normal sync still
occurs. If the same folder is created on both sides and contains
messages on both sides, a two-way sync occurs.
fixes deb#433732
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:54:56 -0400
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: offlineimap@complete.org
Subject: Assorted patches
Here's the result of a lazy Sunday hacking on offlineimap. Sorry for
not breaking this into multiple patches. They're mostly logically
independent so just ask if that would make a difference.
First, a new -q (quick) option. The quick option means to only update
folders that seem to have had significant changes. For Maildir, any
change to any message UID or flags is significant, because checking
the flags doesn't add a significant cost. For IMAP, only a change to
the total number of messages or a change in the UID of the most recent
message is significant. This should catch everything except for
flags changes.
The difference in bandwidth is astonishing: a quick sync takes 80K
instead of 5.3MB, and 28 seconds instead of 90.
There's a configuration variable that lets you say every tenth sync
should update flags, but let all the intervening ones be lighter.
Second, a fix to the UID validity problems many people have been
reporting with Courier. As discussed in Debian bug #433732, I changed
the UID validity check to use SELECT unless the server complains that
the folder is read-only. This avoids the Courier bug (see the Debian
log for more details). This won't fix existing validity errors, you
need to remove the local status and validity files by hand and resync.
Third, some speedups in Maildir checking. It's still pretty slow
due to a combination of poor performance in os.listdir (never reads
more than 4K of directory entries at a time) and some semaphore that
leads to lots of futex wake operations, but at least this saves
20% or so of the CPU time running offlineimap on a single folder:
Time with quick refresh and md5 in loop: 4.75s user 0.46s system 12%
cpu 41.751 total
Time with quick refresh and md5 out of loop: 4.38s user 0.50s system
14% cpu 34.799 total
Time using string compare to check folder: 4.11s user 0.47s system 13%
cpu 34.788 total
And fourth, some display fixes for Curses.Blinkenlights. I made
warnings more visible, made the new quick sync message cyan, and
made all not explicitly colored messages grey. That last one was
really bugging me. Any time OfflineIMAP printed a warning in
this UI, it had even odds of coming out black on black!
Anyway, I hope these are useful. I'm happy to revise them if you see
a problem.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
* Reduced the number of parameters passed to ui.validityproblem() because they were all just method-calls to the folder object, which is already passed as the first parameter (reduction of unnecessary complexity).
From: Ben Kibbey
Subject: Re: Removed restoratime from OfflineIMAP
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:08:35PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Thanks for your restoreatime patch.
>
> However, I have received this bug report:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365933
>
> After looking at the problem, here's what's going on.
>
> The person is using IMAP as the local repository as well.
>
> You really need to move the atime save and restore code from accounts.py
> into the repository/Maildir.py. Then, for any new call you add to the
> Maildir repository (that will be called from outside Maildir.py), you
> need to add a corresponding default function to repository/Base.py, and
> also make sure that on folders (such as IMAP) where atime restoration
> makes no sense, no error is generated.
>
> Let me know if that doesn't make sense to you. If you get it fixed, I'd
> be happy to re-apply it to a future version of OfflineIMAP.
>
> -- John Goerzen
>
Attached is a new diff that should work though not really tested
(v4.0.14). In repository/Base.py restore_atime() will call
self.restore_folder_atimes() only if the folder type is Maildir. Let me
know if it has any more problems.
From: Ben Kibbey <bjk@luxsci.net>
Attached is a patch to restore the atime of Maildir folders after
syncing. It can be enabled via the 'restoreatime' boolean in the
configuration file. I needed this because offlineimap is run after a
fetchmail and my mail checker breaks.
