Can't copy message from local to remote

[Ming Su]

Thanks very much!

According to your reply, I have tried v6.5.6 and v6.5.5, and also more older versions.

it comes to the same error.

And I have also enabled socktimeout in ~/.offlineimaprc, in this case, it can jump out the error, but it can only go one more step, as show below:

|─ming at x1  ~  ‹x1*› 
|─$ offlineimap -u basic
OfflineIMAP 6.5.7-rc4
  Licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or any later version (with an OpenSSL exception)
*** Processing account rcees
Establishing connection to mail.cstnet.cn:993
Syncing Drafts: IMAP -> Maildir
Syncing Junk E-mail: IMAP -> Maildir
Syncing Send Items: IMAP -> Maildir
Establishing connection to mail.cstnet.cn:993
Establishing connection to mail.cstnet.cn:993
Syncing Sent Items: IMAP -> Maildir
Establishing connection to mail.cstnet.cn:993
Syncing INBOX: IMAP -> Maildir
Establishing connection to mail.cstnet.cn:993
Syncing Trash: IMAP -> Maildir
Syncing Virus Items: IMAP -> Maildir
Copy message 1385970712 (1 of 2) Remote:INBOX -> Local
Copy message 1385970713 (2 of 2) Remote:INBOX -> Local
Copy message -1 (1 of 1) Local:INBOX -> Remote
ERROR: command: APPEND => no response after 20.0 secs

Inspired by your suggestion, I just kill offlineimap process after 20 seconds in crontab, as show below:

|─ming at x1  ~  ‹x1*› 
|─$ crontab -e
# ...
* * * * * /usr/local/bin/offlineimap -u basic & sleep 30 && killall -9 offlineimap
# ...

I sent an email in mutt, then I found it showed in the web mail system. It works in a very dirty way.

I still appreciated your help.

Regards,

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Dr. SU, Ming
State Key Lab. of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences 
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On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 08:58:25PM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 12:07:12AM +0800, Ming Su wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > According to the configuration in the manual, I can download remote messages to local driver, however, I can't upload the local sent items to remote.
> > 
> > The following is some information might be useful for analysis.
> > 
> > Thank you for your help!
> > 
> > 
> > After run:
> > =====================================
> > ╭─ming at x1  ~  ‹x1*› 
> > ╰─$ offlineimap -u basic                                                 137 ↵
> > OfflineIMAP 6.5.7-rc4
> 
> Does it work with a previous release (v6.5.6 or v6.5.5)?
> 
> >   Licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or any later version (with an OpenSSL exception)
> >   *** Processing account rcees
> >   Establishing connection to mail.cstnet.cn:993
> >   Creating folder /[Remote]
> >   Syncing Drafts: IMAP -> Maildir
> >   Syncing Junk E-mail: IMAP -> Maildir
> >   Establishing connection to mail.cstnet.cn:993
> >   Syncing Trash: IMAP -> Maildir
> >   Syncing Sent Items: IMAP -> Maildir
> >   Establishing connection to mail.cstnet.cn:993
> >   Establishing connection to mail.cstnet.cn:993
> >   Syncing INBOX: IMAP -> Maildir
> >   Establishing connection to mail.cstnet.cn:993
> >   Syncing Virus Items: IMAP -> Maildir
> >   Copy message 1385970569 (1 of 1) Remote:INBOX -> Local
> >   Copy message -1 (1 of 1) Local:INBOX -> Remote
> > 
> > =====================================
> > and it stop here forever.
> 
> Bad. Once you don't see anymore network consumption, send a SIGQUIT
> signal to see where it's stopped. Wait enough to make sure it's really
> stopped.
> 
> Outside of the above debugging check, you can try with socktimeout
> enabled.
> 
> > 
> > My 
> > 
> > ==========================================
> > ╭─ming at x1  ~  ‹x1*› 
> > ╰─$ cat ~/offlineimaprc                                                 138 ↵
> > [general]
> > ui = Noninteractive.Quiet
> > # list of the configured accounts
> > accounts = rcees
> > fsync = False 
> > 
> > [Account rcees]
> > localrepository = Local
> > remoterepository = Remote
> > #autorefresh = 10 # no autorefresh, i run it one-shot each time
> > quick = 30
> > status_backend = sqlite
> > maxage = 900
> > 
> > [Repository Local]
> > type = Maildir
> > localfolders = ~/mail/rcees_imap/
> > 
> > [Repository Remote]
> > type = IMAP
> > remotehost = mail.cstnet.cn
> > ssl = yes
> > remoteport = 993
> > remoteuser = mingsu at rcees.ac.cn
> > remotepass = ********
> > 
> > realdelete = no
> > # google app-specific password
> > maxconnections = 5
> > holdconnectionopen = yes
> > sslcacertfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
> > postsynchook = notmuch new
> > ==========================================
> > 
> > And here is my maildir structure.
> > ===============================================
> > ╭─ming at x1  ~  ‹x1*› 
> > ╰─$ tree -L 2 ~/mail/rcees_imap
> > ~/mail/rcees_imap
> > ├── Drafts
> > │   ├── cur
> > │   ├── new
> > │   └── tmp
> > ├── INBOX
> > │   ├── cur
> > │   ├── new
> > │   └── tmp
> > ├── Junk E-mail
> > │   ├── cur
> > │   ├── new
> > │   └── tmp
> > ├── Sent Items
> > │   ├── cur
> > │   ├── new
> > │   └── tmp
> > ├── Trash
> > │   ├── cur
> > │   ├── new
> > │   └── tmp
> > └── Virus Items
> >     ├── cur
> >     ├── new
> >     └── tmp
> > 
> > ===============================================
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Sebrecht