Problem with OfflineIMAP

[Tim Kroeger]

Dear developers,

I have a problem with OfflineIMAP.  Im using it (version 6.5.4) to 
keep an IMAP and a MailDir folder collection synchronized.

As long as I am only working on the IMAP side, OfflineIMAP keeps 
synchronizing everything perfectly alright.

When I start working on the MailDir side, however, this is no longer 
true.  In particular, I am doing the following:

* I send an email.  My email client sends it via an SMTP server and 
then automatically places a copy of that email into my INBOX folder 
(on the MailDir side, this times).

* I use my email client to copy this email to a different folder (that 
is, INBOX/tk) and to expunge it from the INBOX folder (still on the 
MailDir side).

* I then run OfflineIMAP.  It produces some error message.  (I ran it 
as

 	offlineimap -d imap,maildir -l debug.log -f INBOX,INBOX/tk

but did not attach the debug.log here because it contains sensitive 
information -- please let me know where to send it such that only the 
OfflineIMAP developers get it.)

* After this, despite of the error message, everything seems alright 
for the moment.  However, if I run OfflineIMAP again then, it produces 
another, identical, message in the INBOX/tk folder.  This continues 
arbitrarily often: Each time I run OfflineIMAP from that on, an 
additional identical message is placed in the INBOX/tk folder.  Each 
run of OfflineIMAP will also give an error similar to the first one.

* I can stop this by deleting *all* copies of this message from the 
INBOX/tk folder (so that this message does not exist any more at all 
on the MailDir side).  When I then run OfflineIMAP again, the message 
re-appears once, with no error, and when I run it again, nothing 
changes any more.

Can you please help me with this issue?

Best Regards,

Tim Kroeger

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