[ANNOUNCE] Re: OfflineIMAP v6.3.2-rc3 released

[Rob Browning]

Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 10:52:39PM +0100, sebastian at sspaeth.de wrote:
>> 
>> Depends. *I* rather want to be notified of a essage which failed to sync
>> properly as I rely on syncing to work. If it simply continues with 6 other
>> accounts, the failure would be so buried in the log that I would likely
>> never discover that offlineimap failed to sync properly. So *I* prefer the
>> "break immediately" mode, but then I only sync 1 account.
>> Reading the archive backlogs, this has been an often complained thing in
>> the past few *years* though.
>
> What about logging the full trace, continue and output a warning (or
> even full traces if some configuration in place) just before ending?

Or do what tar does and print warnings, keep going, and exit with an
error status at the end.

The behavior could also be configurable with something like make's
--keep-going.

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Rob Browning
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