INFINITE FOLDER CREATION DETECTED!

[Thomas Kahle]

Hi,

On 07:03 Thu 18 Apr 2013, Douglas Campos wrote:
> I'm facing the same problem on my setup, any clues?
> 
> import re
> 
> def oimaptransfolder_qmx(foldername):
>     if(foldername == "INBOX"):
>         retval = "qmx"
>     else:
>         retval = "qmx." + re.sub('^INBOX\.', '', foldername)
>     retval = re.sub("/", ".", retval)
>     return retval

You should check the foldernames that go into this function.  What are
they?  I suspect that

re.sub('^INBOX\.', '', foldername)

may be a no-op on your foldername.  The logic in this function is wrong:
It seems to assume that the folder separator is "." as witnessed by
trying to remove a leading "INBOX.".  Then in the next line, it assumes
that the folder sep is "/" because it is trying to replace it with a
dot.

For example INBOX/A gets translated into INBOX.A by this function.

See here for up-to-date versions of my setup:

https://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/mail.html

https://github.com/tom111/mail-setup/blob/master/offlineimap-helpers.py

Cheers,
Thomas

> def localtransfolder_qmx(foldername):
>     if(foldername == "qmx"):
>         retval = "INBOX"
>     else:
>         # remove leading '.qmx'
>         retval = 'INBOX.' + re.sub("qmx\.", "", foldername)
>     retval = re.sub("\.", "/", retval)
>     return retval
> 
> I'm wondering if shouldn't we provide means for offlineimap to tell what
> would be the expected localtrans...
> 
> https://gist.github.com/5411580
> 
> -- 
> qmx
> 
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-- 
Thomas Kahle
http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/
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