ERROR in syncfolder for (username) folder INBOX : null byte in argument for long()

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 02:54:35PM +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:09:36 -0700 (PDT), chris coleman <christocoleman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Nicolas, Sebastian, and the team:
> > 
> > Here is the log from the my first user account which is crashing from the 
> > corrupted data.  
> 
> > This is OfflineIMAP 6.3.2
> > Python: 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 24 2010, 14:53:14) 
> 
> > WARNING: Error occured attempting to sync account username: Traceback (most 
> > recent call last):
> 
> >     (self.diskr2l, self.diskl2r) = self._loadmaps()
> >   File "/root/nicolas33-offlineimap-v632/offlineimap/folder/UIDMaps.py", line 
> > 49, in _loadmaps
> >     (str1, str2) = line.split(':')
> > ValueError: too many values to unpack
> 
> Yes, this looks like a corrupt UIDMaps file again. It loads the UIDMaps,
> expecting a line with one ':' but it seems to be getting a line with
> several ':' on it, which leads to the "too many values to unpack" error.
> 
> So this is a corrupt UIDMaps file for sure. It is not encouraging to see
> that they can get corrupted repeatedly... :-(

Right. I think it's worth implementing a check for that. I'm thinking
about:

  1) catch the exception
  2) warn, giving all sensible information
  3) ignore/skip to not abort the whole sync
  4) document this issue in the FAQ

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht