<p>I've had similar behaviour as long as I've been using OfflineIMAP (~3 years). I always assumed that it was related to multiple sync threads occurring at the same time.</p>

<p>I run under Arch Linux. Shell is zsh. Terminal is urxvt (occasionally with the OfflineIMAP process running in tmux).</p>

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