Can't copy message from local to remote

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 11:06:36PM +0800, Ming Su wrote:

> 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.

Ok.

> 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

Ok.

> 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.

Send a SIGQUIT instead of SIGKILL on a stopped process to get a detailed
traceback.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht