I created new IMAP folders on my server. In some moment I found offlineimap
crashed. The reason were empty LocalStatus files. From looking at the code I
have no explanation how those files came into existence.
* John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org) wrote:
> tages 359213 help
> thanks
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Unfortunately, I lack both the expertise to add Kerberos
> authentication and a way to test this. A patch would be very welcome
> :-)
Well it was a bit unclear but there's a patch for offlineimap attached
to Guido's message:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=10;filename=support-GSSAPI-via-pykerberos.diff;att=1;bug=359213
I've tried it out and it works great! Except that if the Kerberos
layer throws an exception it wouldn't fail over to plain
authentication properly. Attached is a slightly reworked patch that I
tested it in the following situations:
1. python-kerberos uninstalled, with kerberos credentials.
Prompted for password authentication as expected.
2. python-kerberos installed, with kerberos credentials.
Keberos authentication was successful and my mail was fetched
without password prompting. Yeehaw!
3. python-kerberos installed, with no kerberos credentials.
Prompted for password authentication as expected.
I think those are all the interesting situations. So I think this is
ready to go in, with a Suggest on python-kerberos (>=
1.0+mk080218-1).
--
Eric Dorland <eric@kuroneko.ca>
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refs deb#469598
Bug report received in Debian. User is having occasional trouble with Gmail
driver crashing, indicates problem may have started after switching to Gmail.
Gmail driver merged to tree in 81b86fb74 on 2008-01-03 and recently released
in beta tarballs.
BT shows:
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/offlineimap/folder/Gmail.py", line 102, in processmessagesflags
attributehash = imaputil.flags2hash(imaputil.imapsplit(result)[1])
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/offlineimap/imaputil.py", line 88, in imapsplit
for i in range(len(imapstring)):
TypeError: len() of unsized object
imap debug log shows:
imap: 29:58.16 > BEAL75 UID STORE 4887 +FLAGS (\Deleted)
imap: 29:58.47 < BEAL75 OK Success
imap: 29:58.47 matched r'(?P<tag>BEAL\d+) (?P<type>[A-Z]+) (?P<data>.*)' => ('BEAL75', 'OK', 'Success')
imap: imapsplit() called with input: None
imap: imapsplit() got a non-string input; working around.
looking at code for Gmail.py processmessagesflags, comments from Ricardo
indicate it was copied from the same function in folder/IMAP.py.
However, folder/IMAP.py has checks for this, added 2002-07-12 in
5342dacc & 817a10ce. Suspect that Gmail author believed those checks
superfluous for Gmail.
Copied checks from folder/IMAP.py to folder/Gmail.py.
This reverts commit 71a76d9a61.
Zak Smith reported a problem at:
self.processmessagesflags('+', uidlist, flags)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py",
line 372, in processmessagesflags
myrights = imapobj.myrights(self.getfullname())[1][0].split()[1]
IndexError: list index out of range
Conflicts:
offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py
Added WrappedIMAP4_SSL class to help fix up performance of SSL
Standard imaplib.py is really bad with this, since it reads one
character at a time.
Reported by Aaron Kaplan at
http://lists.complete.org/offlineimap@complete.org/2008/01/msg00012.html.gz
He wrote:
I just noticed that the version of offlineimap I've been using
(3.99.17) is well over four years old. How time flies. I haven't
had any problems with it, but out of curiosity I decided to pull in
5.99.2 from the fedora repository. It turns out to take
consistently over twice as long as the old version to sync the same
account. Is this expected?
He tracked it down at
http://lists.complete.org/offlineimap@complete.org/2008/02/msg00012.html.gz
The following changeset is the one responsible for the difference in
speed I was noticing between the imaplib.py that was packaged with
older versions of offlineimap and the one that comes with python:
* /offlineimap/head: changeset 169
More optimizations -- this time fix readline() to not work
character-by-character!
closes#22
from pistore in OfflineIMAP #22:
When an IMAP flag update is performed for multiple messages, some IMAP
servers (e.g. Exchange) return the UID attribute only for some of the
FETCH untagged responses, as shown in the following log:
21:19.04 > DCKF8 UID STORE 66050,50613,52164,40043,40055,25874 +FLAGS
(\Deleted)
21:19.36 < * 35 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen \Deleted) UID 25874)
21:19.36 < * 321 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen \Deleted))
21:19.57 < * 322 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen \Deleted))
21:19.57 < * 560 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen \Deleted))
21:19.57 < * 581 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen \Deleted) UID 52164)
21:19.62 < * 1022 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen \Deleted))
21:19.62 < DCKF8 OK STORE completed.
Function IMAPFolder.processmessagesflags is able to manage the servers
which return the UID and the servers which do not return it, but is
not able to deal with the mixed behavior shown above.
The problem is that the fragment of function
IMAPFolder.processmessagesflags that handles the responses with UID
attribute uses variable flags to store the list of flags of the
message in the IMAP format ("flags = attributehashFLAGS?"), while the
fragment that handles the responses without UID expects variable
"flags" to contain the list of modified flags passed to the function
in Maildir format ("self.messagelist[uid]flags?.append(flag)").
As a consequence, the wrong list of flags is used for the messages
without UID, leading to the addition of "strange" flags to the Maildir
messages:
Syncing messages IMAP[INBOX] -> Maildir[.]
Adding flags to 4 messages on Maildir[.]
Adding flags e to 4 messages on Maildir[.]
Adding flags d to 4 messages on Maildir[.]
Adding flags ) to 4 messages on Maildir[.]
Adding flags ( to 4 messages on Maildir[.]
Adding flags l to 4 messages on Maildir[.]
Adding flags n to 4 messages on Maildir[.]
Adding flags t to 4 messages on Maildir[.]
Adding flags \ to 4 messages on Maildir[.]
Adding flags D to 4 messages on Maildir[.]
Deleting flags T to 4 messages on Maildir[.]
Adding flags to 4 messages on LocalStatus[.]
Adding flags e to 4 messages on LocalStatus[.]
Adding flags d to 4 messages on LocalStatus[.]
Adding flags ) to 4 messages on LocalStatus[.]
Adding flags ( to 4 messages on LocalStatus[.]
Adding flags l to 4 messages on LocalStatus[.]
Adding flags n to 4 messages on LocalStatus[.]
Adding flags t to 4 messages on LocalStatus[.]
Adding flags \ to 4 messages on LocalStatus[.]
Adding flags D to 4 messages on LocalStatus[.]
Deleting flags T to 4 messages on LocalStatus[.]
Fix: use a different variable to store IMAP flags when managing
messages corresponding to responses with UID attribute, e.g.:
*** IMAP.py.orig Wed Aug 22 18:23:17 2007
--- IMAP.py Wed Aug 22 18:22:38 2007
*************** class IMAPFolder(BaseFolder):
*** 340,348 ****
if not ('UID' in attributehash and 'FLAGS' in
attributehash):
# Compensate for servers that don't return a UID
attribute.
continue
! flags = attributehash['FLAGS']
uid = long(attributehash['UID'])
! self.messagelist[uid]['flags'] =
imaputil.flagsimap2maildir(flags)
try:
needupdate.remove(uid)
except ValueError: # Let it slide if it's not
in the list
--- 340,348 ----
if not ('UID' in attributehash and 'FLAGS' in
attributehash):
# Compensate for servers that don't return a UID
attribute.
continue
! lflags = attributehash['FLAGS']
uid = long(attributehash['UID'])
! self.messagelist[uid]['flags'] =
imaputil.flagsimap2maildir(lflags)
try:
needupdate.remove(uid)
except ValueError: # Let it slide if it's not
in the list
02/03/08 14:04:35 changed by js
* attachment flags-fix.patch added.
Delete 02/03/08 14:05:24 changed by js ¶
Unfortunately I have to fetch some of my mail from an Exchange server
(Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 IMAP4rev1 server version 6.5.7638.1)
and I can confirm that the analysis of the problem is correct, and the
patch given here fixes the problem.
Looking at the code of the processmessagesflags() method I think it
generally is a bug that the "flags" parameter is reused as a local
variable, since the final "for uid in needupdate:" loop needs the
original value of "flags". This only worked by accident.
I'm attaching a unidiff version of the patch which applies cleanly
against Debian unstable's offlineimap 5.99.4.
New repository/folder classes to support "real deletion" of messages
thorugh Gmail's IMAP interface: to really delete a message in Gmail,
one has to move it to the Trash folder, rather than EXPUNGE it.
