Negative message numbers?

[Dave Abrahams]

on Wed Sep 28 2011, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian-AT-SSpaeth.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:10:42 -0400, Dave Abrahams <dave at boostpro.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm still seeing this failure, and I was surprised to notice it trying
>> to copy messages numbered -1 and -2.  Is that normal?  What does it
>> mean?
>
> Negative numbers are new local messages that don't have an UID assigned
> yet.
>
> It seems you see lots of reset and aborted connections from the server
> side....
>
> Connection reset by peer
> Too many read 0
>
> are both indications that the connection has somehow been
> broken. Either you tripped over your WLAN cable or gmail decided to
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^
cute idea.  You should patent that.----^^^^^^^^^^

> kick you out...
>
> Sorry, I don't think I have better explanations for why you are seeing
> these. Does a later sync succeed?

I'll have to see how things look after 4bfc1e82...
well, I just saw it again, after a few hours of being offline.  Looks
it's stuck on the same message:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Sep 28 13:20:33 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]:  Next refresh in 2510 seconds
Sep 28 13:20:33 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]: Folder sync [BoostPro]:
Sep 28 13:20:33 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]:  Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993.
Sep 28 13:20:34 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]:  ERROR: Saving msg in folder 'INBOX', repository 'BoostProRemote' failed. Server reponded: command: APPEND => socket error: <class 'socket.error'> - [Errno 54] Connection reset by peer
Sep 28 13:20:34 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]: Message content was: Delivered-To: dave at boostpro.com
Sep 28 13:20:34 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]: Received: by 10.52.162.166 with SMTP id yb6cs51861vdb;
Sep 28 13:20:34 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]:         Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:57:21 -0700 (PDT)
Sep 28 13:20:34 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]: Received: by 1...ailed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
Sep 28 13:20:34 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]:  Copy message -2 Maildir[] -> Gmail[INBOX]
Sep 28 13:20:35 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]:  Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993.
Sep 28 13:20:35 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]:  ERROR: command: APPEND => socket error: <type 'exceptions.IOError'> - Too many read 0
Sep 28 13:20:36 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]:  Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993.
Sep 28 13:20:36 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]:  ERROR: Saving msg in folder 'INBOX', repository 'BoostProRemote' failed. Server reponded: command: APPEND => socket error: <type 'exceptions.IOError'> - Too many read 0
Sep 28 13:20:36 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]: Message content was: Delivered-To: dave at boostpro.com
Sep 28 13:20:36 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]: Received: by 10.52.168.97 with SMTP id zv1cs24464vdb;
Sep 28 13:20:36 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]:         Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:22:48 -0700 (PDT)
Sep 28 13:20:36 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]: Received: by 10....com
Sep 28 13:20:36 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]: ------------=_1314822362-17042-3--
Sep 28 13:20:36 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]: Account sync BoostPro:
Sep 28 13:20:36 pluto mac.offlineimap[12604]:  Calling hook: /Users/dave/bin/imap-postsync localhost dave --soft-errors
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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com