command LIST illegal in state NONAUTH, only allowed in states AUTH, SELECTED

[Marc MERLIN]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 01:54:17AM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> > I have offlineimap configured like this:
> > preauthtunnel = ssh -p443 -x -q imap.merlins.org 'sleep 1; IMAP_IDLE_TIMEOUT=20 IMAP_CAPABILITY="IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE" /usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir'
> > 
> > Any idea where I should go from here besides restarting offlineimap
> > multiple times until it works?
> 
> It looks like offlineimap releases IMAP commands while in the incorrect
> IMAP state. However, it's hard to say if this comes from offlineimap or
> the server. I'm not aware of other users having this issue with
> offlineimap. OTOH I would not be surprised if that's the offlineimap
> fault.
> 
> I think this issue could come from IDLE or something which logout the
> client while the client still thinks it is authenticated.
> 
> I would first try without IDLE or by increasing the IMAP_IDLE_TIMEOUT a
> lot to check this.

Thanks for the suggestions. I just tried, but it didn't help:
saruman:~$ offlineimap -d imap -a merlins.org
OfflineIMAP 7.2.3
  Licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or any later version (with an OpenSSL exception)
imaplib2 v2.57 (system), Python v2.7.15+, OpenSSL 1.1.1a  20 Nov 2018
Debug mode: Forcing to singlethreaded.
Now debugging for imap: IMAP protocol debugging
Now debugging for : Other offlineimap related sync messages
Account sync merlins.org:
 [imap]: Using authentication mechanisms ['GSSAPI', 'XOAUTH2', 'CRAM-MD5', 'PLAIN', 'LOGIN']
 *** Processing account merlins.org
 Establishing connection to tunnel:ssh -p443 -x -q imap.merlins.org 'sleep 1; IMAP_CAPABILITY="IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=REFERENCES SORT" /usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir' (Merlins.org)
INFO: LOGIN, user=merlin, ip=[127.0.0.1], port=[0], protocol=IMAP
 ERROR: While attempting to sync account 'merlins.org'
  command LIST illegal in state NONAUTH, only allowed in states AUTH, SELECTED
 ['  File "/usr/share/offlineimap/offlineimap/accounts.py", line 283, in syncrunner\n    self.__sync()\n', '  File "/usr/share/offlineimap/offlineimap/accounts.py", line 359, in __sync\n    remoterepos.getfolders()\n', '  File "/usr/share/offlineimap/offlineimap/repository/IMAP.py", line 452, in getfolders\n    imapobj = self.imapserver.acquireconnection()\n', '  File "/usr/share/offlineimap/offlineimap/imapserver.py", line 603, in acquireconnection\n    listres = imapobj.list(self.reference, \'""\')[1]\n', '  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/imaplib2.py", line 947, in list\n    return self._simple_command(name, directory, pattern, **kw)\n', '  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/imaplib2.py", line 1748, in _simple_command\n    return self._command_complete(self._command(name, *args), kw)\n', '  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/imaplib2.py", line 1408, in _command\n    % (name, self.state, \', \'.join(Commands[name][CMD_VAL_STATES])))\n']
 *** Finished account 'merlins.org' in 0:01
Keep alive Merlins.org:
 [imap]: keepalive thread started
Account sync merlins.org:
 Next refresh in 30.0 minutes
Keep alive Merlins.org:
 [imap]: keepalive: waiting for timeout
^CAccount sync merlins.org:
 Preparing to shutdown after sync (this may take some time), press CTRL-C three times to shutdown immediately
ssh -p443 -x -q imap.merlins.org 'sleep 1; IMAP_CAPABILITY="IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=REFERENCES SORT" /usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir' reader:
 [imap]:   14:40.92 ssh -p443 -x -q imap.merlins.org 'sleep 1; IMAP_CAPABILITY="IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=REFERENCES SORT" /usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir' reader last 20 log messages:
Account sync merlins.org:
 ERROR: Exceptions occurred during the run!
 ERROR: While attempting to sync account 'merlins.org'
  command LIST illegal in state NONAUTH, only allowed in states AUTH, SELECTED

Looks like removing IDLE didn't help
Re-running the same command works after once or twice.

Marc
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