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: 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: 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.
