[PATCH] Syncing gmail labels for gmail accounts

Dima Pasechnik dimpase+olimap at gmail.com
Thu Nov 22 15:08:35 GMT 2012 

Hi,
I am trying this patch on my gmail account
(specifically, the code I use is here:
https://github.com/dimpase/offlineimap)
and get the following errors (which look like a bug being triggered):

$ offlineimap
OfflineIMAP 6.5.5-rc2
  Licensed under the GNU GPL v2+ (v2 or any later version)
Account sync main:
 *** Processing account main
 Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993
Folder [Google Mail]/All Mail [acc: main]:
 Syncing [Google Mail]/All Mail: Gmail -> GmailMaildir
 Collecting data from messages on [Google Mail]/All Mail
 Copy message 211570 (1 of 3) gmail-remote:[Google Mail]/All Mail -> main-local
 Copy message 211572 (2 of 3) gmail-remote:[Google Mail]/All Mail -> main-local
 Copy message 211571 (3 of 3) gmail-remote:[Google Mail]/All Mail -> main-local
Copy message from gmail-remote:[Google Mail]/All Mail:
 Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993
 Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993
Folder [Google Mail]/All Mail [acc: main]:
 Setting labels to message 211466 on [Google Mail].All Mail (1 of 4):
 ERROR: Syncing folder [Google Mail]/All Mail [acc: main]
  sub() got an unexpected keyword argument 'flags'
 ERROR: ERROR in syncfolder for main folder [Google Mail]/All Mail:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/offlineimap/accounts.py",
line 446, in syncfolder
    remotefolder.syncmessagesto(localfolder, statusfolder)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/offlineimap/folder/Base.py",
line 642, in syncmessagesto
    action(dstfolder, statusfolder)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/offlineimap/folder/Gmail.py",
line 328, in syncmessagesto_labels
    dstfolder.savemessagelabels(uid, selflabels, ignorelabels =
self.ignorelabels)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/offlineimap/folder/GmailMaildir.py",
line 150, in savemessagelabels
    content = self.message_addheader(content, self.labelsheader, labels_str)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/offlineimap/folder/Base.py",
line 385, in message_addheader
    leader, flags = re.MULTILINE)
TypeError: sub() got an unexpected keyword argument 'flags'

  sub() got an unexpected keyword argument 'flags'
Account sync main:
 *** Finished account 'main' in 0:45
ERROR: Exceptions occurred during the run!
ERROR: Syncing folder [Google Mail]/All Mail [acc: main]
  sub() got an unexpected keyword argument 'flags'
ERROR: ERROR in syncfolder for main folder [Google Mail]/All Mail:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/offlineimap/accounts.py",
line 446, in syncfolder
    remotefolder.syncmessagesto(localfolder, statusfolder)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/offlineimap/folder/Base.py",
line 642, in syncmessagesto
    action(dstfolder, statusfolder)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/offlineimap/folder/Gmail.py",
line 328, in syncmessagesto_labels
    dstfolder.savemessagelabels(uid, selflabels, ignorelabels =
self.ignorelabels)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/offlineimap/folder/GmailMaildir.py",
line 150, in savemessagelabels
    content = self.message_addheader(content, self.labelsheader, labels_str)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/offlineimap/folder/Base.py",
line 385, in message_addheader
    leader, flags = re.MULTILINE)
TypeError: sub() got an unexpected keyword argument 'flags'

  sub() got an unexpected keyword argument 'flags'
$

Would be great is this is easily fixable, as I really like the extras
this patch
is offering.

Best,
Dmitrii

On 26 October 2012 02:33, Abdó Roig-Maranges <abdo.roig at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to find a good way to sync gmail labels (and use them
> in the email client) for some time now. My system up until now involved
> syncing labels into an external file, and using a lot of glue scripts to
> keep them in sync, update notmuch tags, etc. Very messy.
>
> I've now decided to try a different approach, which seems pretty close
> to the right one. I've added support in offlineimap to sync gmail
> labels, and store them inside the messages, under the header
> X-Keywords. This way, the labels "move with the messages" (even if I
> copy the maildir to an other machine, etc etc).
>
> There are some MUA that even recognize to some degree the X-Keywords
> header or a close relative, X-Label [2]. It seems mutt supports X-Label
> [3] and mu supports both [4].
>
> I've been happily using this approach, with mu/mu4e as my MUA / indexer,
> for a week now. So here I attach a couple of patches (against current
> master) which do the following (see the individual commits for more
> details).
>
> bugfixes.patch :
>
>   1. fixes a couple of easy bugs I found. It must be applied first, and
>      is independent of the rest.
>
>
> gmail-labels.patch:
>
>   2. When a message goes out of gmail, adds a header X-Keywords with a
>      comma separated list of labels.
>
>   3. Updates the LocalStatus Sqlite table to include columns for labels
>      and local mtimes. For non-gmail repositories these columns are
>      ignored.
>
>   4. When labels change on the gmail side, syncs them the same way as
>      flags get synced (comparing with LocalStatus etc)
>
>   5. Adds a GmailMaildir folder type, which keeps track of individual
>      message modification times (the POSIX mtime), and uses it to spot
>      messages which have been modified locally. Then, only for those
>      modified messages (typically very few), reads the labels and syncs
>      them back to gmail, the same way as flags.
>
>   6. Adds an option to filter out certain headers when uploading
>      messages to gmail. One may want to remove X-Keywords before sending
>      a message back to gmail.
>
>   7. Adds an option to ignore certain labels, like \Draft, for which
>      flags serve the same purpose. Gmail internally keeps the D flag in
>      sync with the \Draft label, or the F flag with the \Starred label.
>
>
> Some comments:
>
>   1. These changes (which are quite a few) should interfere minimally
>      with non-gmail users. The only exception is the update on
>      LocalStatus sqlite table, which I hope will cause little trouble.
>
>   2. There are some issues with the SQLite backend. Right now, it
>      commits to the database too frequently IMHO (after every message
>      copy). This produces a lot of disk activity. I may look into
>      it... my approach would be storing the status in memory during the
>      message copying and commit to database once, at the end. Any
>      thoughts? I don't think there is danger of losing data, on
>      crashes. The LocalStatus will be updated correctly on the next run.
>
>   3. The slower part is folder.Gmail.cachemessagelist, that downloads
>      the uids and labels for all messages. It takes about 17 seconds
>      with about 25k moderately labelled messages. I have done some
>      experiments with multiple threads without improvement. My guess is
>      that on the gmail side there is some sort of bandwith
>      throttling. Not even compressing the connection improves matters.
>
> Well, that's it. I send this patch hoping some developer here may take
> the time to look at it. Being able to use and sync labels with the web
> interface or mobile would be a very nice addition for which, as far as I
> know, there is no alternative solution out there.
>
>
> [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.offlineimap.general/5916
> [2] http://does-not-exist.org/mail-archives/mutt-dev/msg08249.html
> [3] http://blitiri.com.ar/p/other/mutt-labels/
> [4] https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/40
>
> Abdó.
>
>
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