Another stab at IMAP IDLE

[Leon Bogaert]

Hi,

Great. I think I'll install your idle branch and test with it. In the
meantime I'll try to get familiar with the offlineimap code.

I took a look at James Bunton's code and it doesn't seem complicated.
Maybe I'll hack together a version of my own to rule out the deadlocks
being the cause of that patch.

I don't really have that much time too but it would be great to have
something working in a couple of
months.OfflineIMAP-project at lists.alioth.debian.org

Regards,
Leon

On wo, 2011-01-19 at 09:56 -0500, Ethan Glasser-Camp wrote:
> On 01/18/2011 04:13 PM, Leon Bogaert wrote:
> > I'm very interested in this too. I would be glad to help a hand. By
> > testing or
> > by coding pieces of it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Leon
> 
> Hey,
> 
> Regarding current status: I haven't written any code since the last 
> patch series I sent to the mailing list. I did spend a lot of time 
> tracking down a mysterious hang that eventually seems to be related to a 
> multithreading deadlock. It's sporadic so I couldn't nail down what 
> exactly caused it, but it certainly might have something to do with 
> imaplib2.
> 
> I think the next step is to rewrite the patch series in a more 
> approachable form. Nicholas suggested that we not go to too much effort 
> to preserve the form of the commits as they were originally written, 
> especially the commit messages, so I was figuring to have commits for:
> 
> - introducing the newest imaplib2 as a file, but not using it.
> - switching over to it, including any semantic changes that are necessary.
> - introducing IDLE functionality based on the timer hack originally 
> implemented by James Bunton in 
> http://delx.net.au/blog/2009/02/offlineimap-idle-support/ .
> 
> Plus whatever else seems necessary. I'm kind of busy for the next week 
> or two, so if you wanted to beat the commit series into shape, that 
> would be great.
> 
> Since imaplib2 was dropped due to reliability concerns, it seems pretty 
> important that we not cause any horrible crashes or hangs in switching 
> over to imaplib2. I'd love to have more testers running the version of 
> offlineimap that supports IDLE, whether they enable it or not. I'm 
> definitely seeing a sporadic hang on my extremely crappy Internet 
> connection, more commonly when the connection is overloaded, and if 
> anyone could reproduce that and track it down, that would be great.
> 
> I think if we get the above patches merged, then we'd be in good shape. 
> So the two above things are my major concerns for when I get some free time.
> 
> Ethan
>