IDLE does not idle, offlineimap immediately returns

[Franz Fellner]

Any help with this? Would be really nice if I could get IDLE working. :)

BTW.: Though I said "yes" to recieve my own messages to the list i did not get a copy of my initial mail, so had to reply to my sent message in order to keep track of the topic.

On Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2013 14:44:35 CEST, Franz Fellner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently setup offlineimap and synced all my mail. The next 
> step is to make syncing easier (gmail is SO SLOW to sync) and 
> setup IDLE.
> As the subject says it does not work as expected. The command 
> (offlineimap -o) returns after syncing, I could not find a 
> background process that potentially would listen for new mail.
> I adopted the setup given in the example config: [general]
> accounts = GmailAlp
>
> [Account GmailAlp]
> localrepository = GmailAlp-local
> remoterepository = GmailAlp-remote
> status_backend = sqlite
>
> [Repository GmailAlp-local]
> type = Maildir
> localfolders = ~/mail/GmailAlp
> nametrans = lambda folder: {'archive': '[Google Mail]/Alle Nachrichten',
>                             }.get(folder, folder)
>
> [Repository GmailAlp-remote]
> type = Gmail
> sslcacertfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
> remoteuser = USER
> remotepass = PASS
> nametrans = lambda folder: {'[Google Mail]/Alle Nachrichten': 'archive',
>                             }.get(folder, folder)
> idlefolders = ['INBOX']
> keepalive = 4
>
> Is there something wrong with my setup?
>
> I also have an account at web.de, where idling does not work, eather.
> I am using offlineimap-6.5.4-r1 on a Gentoo Linux.
>
> Thx
> Franz
>