Speedup sync - Issue when network disconnectivity

[Benoît]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:27:35PM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 08:02:56PM +0200, Benoît wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>
>Hi,

Thanks for your reply !

>> I am new to offlineimap and using it for 2 weeks now in conjunction with
>> mutt.
>>
>> I would like to see if there is a way to use IDLE connection ?
>> I saw on the know issues that IDLE is (was?) experimental, the article
>> is from 2012 so I wonder if we can consider that IDLE is supported
>> correctly now ?
>
>It's possible to enable IDLE. It was marked stable some years ago. I've
>marked this feature experimental again due to unsolved issues.
>
>I still consider IDLE not enough stable for most users.

I made intensive test and it seems that IDLE is not my friend !
Lot of time it is quicker for me to run without it on my test as I got 
lot of issue to receive mails with IDLE and I often need to restart 
offlineimap to receive mail again...

>> The reason why I am interested on IDLE is that I am using
>> mutt/offlineimap against a Office 365 account and they got an issue
>> where the connection needs more than 10sec to be able to push data...
>>
>> So even if I reduce the connection to do a check every minute if is very
>> slow...
>
>I think the best is to test and try.
>
>> The second issue I have is when my network connectivity is lost
>> (wireless week signal or simply put my computer to sleep and connecting
>> to another network when I open my computer again).
>>
>> I realized that most of the time I need to restart the offline systemd
>> service because offline seems to hangs indefinitely... even if the
>> connection is working again it is impossible for offlineimap to find or
>> resolve the name of the IMAP server.
>>
>> I saw some article speaking about that and advice to reduce the
>> socktimeout but it is not seems to work for me.
>>
>> Any idea?
>
>Recovering a working connection on unexpected connectivity loss is not
>always well handled.
>
>You might like to check the open issues on the official issues
>tracker[1].
>
>1. https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/issues
>

Yes thanks I already had a look on all the 4 topics related to this 
subject but was not able to find a complete solution...
I don't know if it is a good idea or not but I have added a 
"pkill -9 -f offlineimap" 
after my connection script and it seems to (at least) restart the 
connectitons from offlineimap to my servers now I have to see if it is 
enough or not for long connection without failures...

>-- 
>Nicolas Sebrecht

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Benoît