[PATCH 0/13] Reintegrate imaplib2 and IDLE, again

[Ethan Glasser-Camp]

On 02/07/2011 02:38 PM, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> Can you comment on the issues that caused imaplib2 to be
> removed from offlineimap?  How does this patchset avoid known issues?
>
> See commit 762b5898424a85238fb6aa99e58def2762f86504 and
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/600086
Hi,

As I wrote in [1], I think it is plausible that at least some of the 
reported issues have since been fixed in imaplib2. If we ever want to 
support IDLE, there aren't really other, better options. Additionally, 
I've interacted with Piers Lauder, the upstream author of both imaplib 
and imaplib2, and he's relatively responsive -- if we do uncover bugs 
and stability issues in imaplib2, I think reporting them upstream would 
be the way to go.

[1] 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.offlineimap.general/1996/match=another+stab

Ethan