<DKIM> Re:OfflineIMAP fails with "command: UID => connection terminated"

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 08:47:38AM +0200, Damien Desfontaines wrote:

> Hello again,

> there and deleted the cache and the contents of my mailbox (after
> backuping everything, of course):
>     http://docs.offlineimap.org/en/latest/FAQ.html#what-is-the-uid-validity-problem-for-folder
> I still don't understand why this fails, since I've been using this
> setup (offlineimap to get my e-mails on my laptop + SSH directly and
> run mutt on the actual mailbox when I'm not on my laptop) for years
> (so I guess my IMAP server deals with UIDs correctly).
> 
> I've backed up everything, so potential data loss is not an issue. If
> the solution is to say to OfflineIMAP "just forget everything you know
> about the UIDs of this mailbox and re-download everything", that's
> fine with me — but how can I do that?

Following the above procedure does exactly this "just forget everything
you know about the UIDs and re-download everything".


> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 11:12:47PM +0200, Damien Desfontaines wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > OfflineIMAP stopped working today, and I'm completely puzzled as why
> > it did. Here is my config: http://paste.fulltxt.net/7ee
> > 
> > When running offlineimap, I get a traceback and the error message
> > above. The normal output is here: http://paste.fulltxt.net/Yr and
> > when I run it with -d ALL, I get 25309 lines, the 100 last of which
> > are here: http://paste.fulltxt.net/zFdfjU

I don't get why it fails.

- Does the sync stop at the exact same mail?
- Does it fail at the first mail?

> > My configuration absolutely didn't change during the day, neither did
> > the versions of my dovecot and offlineimap packages (I updated them
> > since then just in case). I did read and write some mails through SSH
> > on another machine (as I usually do), and the only slightly unusual
> > thing I remember doing was using the mutt '#' command to split a large
> > thread into two pieces. Could that have messed up with something?

Weird.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht