We currently do not allow nametrans rules such as
nametrans = lambda foldername: re.sub('^INBOX$', '', foldername)
because we crash with a traceback when running:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499755
The underlying reason is that we cannot create the "top level" root
directory of the Maildir in the function makefolders(), it will bail
out. John Goerzen intentionally prevented offlineimap from creating the
top-level dir, so that a misconfiguration could not arbitrarily create
folders on the file system. I believe that it should be perfectly
possible to automatically create the root dirctory of the maildir. We
still protect against folder creations at arbitrary places in the file
system though.
This patch cleans up makefolders(), adds documentation, allows to
automatically create rootfolders if needed (using absolute paths) and
adds some robustness in case the folders already exist that we want to
create (rather than simply crapping out).
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=499755 shows the
cryptic output we have when, e.g. trying to put somethin in our mailDir
root via the nametrans options. This commit adds at least some hint as
to what went wrong using an "assert" message, although the correct thing
is to allow the creation of a maildir in the root folder.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
The latter is much shorter and looks nicer. UIBase was a very weird
name and with this patch, we don't need to use (or see) it from higher
level code anymore.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
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.
