[PATCH 2/4] Re: Handle when UID can't be found on saved messages

Vladimir Marek Vladimir.Marek at Oracle.COM
Thu Jul 28 08:59:49 BST 2011


Hi,

> >> I'm afraid about this infinite loop. Can you tell more?
> >> 
> >> I understand it could be done only if two instances of offlineimap are
> >> running on both side.  Am I correct or did I miss something?
> >
> > Yes. If we find new mail on 'local' side, we upload it to 'remote' side
> > and then try to find it's UID on the remote side. If we can't find it
> > for any reason, as a fallback we erase the mail on 'local' storage and
> > on next run we hope that it will be synchronized back. But if both sides
> > are IMAP and both IMAP servers don't allow us to find our X-OfflineIMAP
> > header, we'll be doing that in a infinite loop.
> 
> Just to be perfectly clear, this isn't a new problem, right? The patch
> just reverts the behaviour back to what it was in the latest release
> (6.3.3).

Correct, it's not a new problem. But without this fix, offlineimap
crashed, so there was no risk of infinite loop.

-- 
	Vlad




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