Getting offlineimap to maintain a specific maildir structure

[Rogério Brito]

Hi there.

I am a user of offlineimap and I am having problems jumping from version 
6.3.4 to any newer version.

In particular, I am having a problem maintaining a certain structure in 
my maildir (which worked fine for all versions that I have used up to and 
until 6.3.4).

It seems that the problems that I am facing are related to the 
bidirectional synchronization. I would appreciate it if anybody could 
help me with guidance so that I can upgrade to what my distribution gives 
me.

The situation:

I am syncing a gmail account to my maildir (which I read with Dovecot's 
IMAP server). I have the following structure in my maildir (edited for 
brevity):

Maildir/
(...)
├── .All Mail
│   ├── cur
│   ├── new
│   └── tmp
├── .Debian
│   ├── cur
│   ├── new
│   └── tmp
├── .Debian.debian-devel-announce
│   ├── cur
│   ├── new
│   └── tmp
├── .Debian.debian-powerpc
│   ├── cur
│   ├── new
│   └── tmp
(...)
├── cur
├── new
└── tmp

What I do is: I map gmail's INBOX to the toplevel maildir and, then, all 
the other folders get put inside this maildir, with the names prefixed by 
a dot and with the separator being a dot.

I am using the following configuration:

,----
| [general]
| accounts		= email
| maxsyncaccounts	= 10
| ui			= basic
| fsync			= false
| 
| [Account email]
| localrepository	= local
| remoterepository	= remote
| status_backend	= sqlite
| 
| [Repository local]
| type			= Maildir
| localfolders		= ~/Maildir
| 
| [Repository remote]
| type			= Gmail
| remoteuser		= rbrito at gmail.com
| remotepass		= mypassword
| realdelete		= yes
| nametrans		= lambda name: re.sub('^', '.', re.sub('^(\[Gmail
\]/|INBOX)', '', name))
| maxconnections	= 7
| createfolders		= false
| sslcacertfile		= /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
`----

>From what I understand, I disabled the bidirectional syncing with 
createfolders=false (in an attempt to mimic as much as possible the 
behavior of 6.3.4), but I get the following error message:

,----
| OfflineIMAP 6.5.4
|   Licensed under the GNU GPL v2+ (v2 or any later version)
| *** Processing account email
| Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993
| Creating folder .[local]
| ERROR: Aborting sync, folder '.' [acc: 'email']
|   getfolder() asked for a nonexisting folder '.'.
(...)
`----

I have tried to map the INBOX folder from Gmail to both the '.' directory 
(which is refused, as seen above) and the empty string, but I get errors 
in both situations.

So, how can I restore the functionality/behavior of offlineimap 6.3.4?


Thanks in advance for any help,

-- 
Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA
http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog : Projects : https://github.com/rbrito/
DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br