offlineimap crashes if it syncs while I am composing

[Stephen J. Barr]

Greetings,

First of all, thank you djcb for the fantastic software. I really enjoy it and it is now well integrated into my workflow. However, I find offlineimap to be extremely unreliable. For example, if I begin composing an email and offlineimap happens to run, I will get and error like the following:

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Account sync stevepb:

 *** Finished account 'stevepb' in 0:00

Thread 'Folder INBOX.Drafts [acc: stevepb]' terminated with exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/offlineimap/threadutil.py", line 158, in run

    Thread.run(self)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 763, in run

    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/offlineimap/accounts.py", line 458, in syncfolder

    localfolder.syncmessagesto(remotefolder, statusfolder)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/Base.py", line 549, in syncmessagesto

    action(dstfolder, statusfolder)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/Base.py", line 432, in syncmessagesto_copy

    register = 0)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/Base.py", line 358, in copymessageto

    new_uid = dstfolder.savemessage(uid, message, flags, rtime)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py", line 554, in savemessage

    raise OfflineImapError(msg, OfflineImapError.ERROR.REPO)

OfflineImapError: Saving msg in folder 'INBOX.Drafts', repository 'pb_remote' failed (abort). Server responded: NO ['Message contains invalid header']

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How can I fix this?

Thanks,
Stephen

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

On Saturday Mar 15 2014, Stephen J. Barr wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> First of all, thank you djcb for the fantastic software. I really enjoy it
> and it is now well integrated into my workflow. However, I find offlineimap
> to be extremely unreliable. For example, if I begin composing an email and
> offlineimap happens to run, I will get and error like the following:
>
> --------------------------
> Account sync stevepb:
> *** Finished account 'stevepb' in 0:00
> Thread 'Folder INBOX.Drafts [acc: stevepb]' terminated with exception:
> Traceback (most recent call last):

[ snip ]

> OfflineImapError: Saving msg in folder 'INBOX.Drafts', repository
> 'pb_remote' failed (abort). Server responded: NO ['Message contains invalid
> header']
>
> ---------------------------
>
> How can I fix this?

Perhaps at some point during their lifetime, the drafts are not valid
messages; or perhaps emacs puts backup files in the directory. Hard to
say -- can you see the exact files offlineimap is complaining about?

A work-around would be to exclude the drafts directory from what you
sync with offlineimap.

Cheers,
Dirk.


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[Stephen J. Barr]

Thank you. I will try excluding the drafts folder.

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