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John Goerzen
e1fb9492f8 Patch for signal handling to start a sync by Jim Pryor
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.
2008-12-01 16:13:16 -06:00
John Goerzen
5db24303b7 Patch to make exit on Ctrl-C cleaner
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.
2008-12-01 16:10:49 -06:00
John Goerzen
ab43d74549 Applied pre/post sync hooks
Patch from Sylvain FORET in refs #71
2008-10-01 00:03:04 -05:00
John Goerzen
2a852a8f48 Rework keepalive to use time.sleep() instead of event.wait()
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
2008-08-02 17:44:03 -05:00
John Goerzen
6790c94869 Revert "Checkpointing work on mailbox deletion"
This reverts commit f58ebe390d.

Not going to follow this path right now
2008-05-20 01:38:32 -05:00
John Goerzen
f58ebe390d Checkpointing work on mailbox deletion 2008-05-20 01:38:15 -05:00
John Goerzen
73485475e9 Infrastructure for notifying LocalStatus of local mailbox creations
This will let us delete LocalStatus caches when we create a local
mailbox

refs deb#459985, refs #19
2008-03-02 22:17:45 -06:00
Vincent Beffara
f549baa074 UNDO: Synchronize newly created folders both ways
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.
2007-09-02 01:43:15 +01:00
Vincent Beffara
b925fd1296 Synchronize newly created folders both ways
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.
2007-09-02 01:43:15 +01:00
John Goerzen
3305d8cd4d Daniel Jacobowitz patches
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
2007-10-01 22:20:37 +01:00
John Goerzen
a381ca3977 Re-scan list of remote folders on each sync
rather than just up-front.

fixes deb#396772
2007-07-06 17:46:29 +01:00
David Favro
82c215023c Removed copyright notice; assigning copyright to John Goerzen 2007-03-16 03:44:54 +01:00
David Favro
657b470d74 UID validity diagnostics improvement
* 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).
2007-03-15 05:39:15 +01:00
John Goerzen
89e530ff6e New restoreatime patch from Ben Kibbey
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.
2006-09-06 02:33:07 +01:00
John Goerzen
39a18fef60 Update FSF address 2006-08-12 05:15:55 +01:00
John Goerzen
5a6b2a1ebd Revert restoreatime patch 2006-05-04 09:05:46 +01:00
John Goerzen
405275f541 New restoreatime patch
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.
2006-03-02 00:12:29 +01:00
John Goerzen
d839be3c61 Step 2 of SVN to arch tree conversion 2005-04-16 20:33:35 +01:00