'Safe Harbor' version of offlineimap

[Dave Abrahams]

on Wed Jun 13 2012, Sriram Karra <karra.etc-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen at fastmail.net> wrote:
>
>     Daniel P. Wright writes:
>     
>     > Sorry to dig up an old thread -- I was just wondering if you got
>     > anywhere with this?
>     
>     
>     Not really. I ended up doing what you envisage as well: go back
>     to an older version of offlineimap.
>
> While there are undeniably some serious stability issues with
> offlineimap in recent times, it is quite a valuable tool for many; I
> am loathe to abandon offlineimap because of any transitory quality
> issues.
>
> I wonder if we can ascertain the 'last best version' which appears to
> work for most loyal users, where most of us can park ourselves while
> Sebastien and others can figure out the quality issues.

+1000.  I am just about to get rid of offlineimap and my colleague John
Wiegley has recently done the same because it has been messing up our
emails.  This is terrible.

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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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