IMAP synchronisation fails in select

[Samium Gromoff]

Performing an initial sync with an IMAP server fails with the folllowing traceback:

Thread 'Folder sync deepfire[mew-alias]' terminated with exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/offlineimap/threadutil.py", line 149, in run
    Thread.run(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/threading.py", line 446, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/offlineimap/accounts.py", line 219, in syncfolder
    remotefolder.saveuidvalidity()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/offlineimap/folder/Base.py", line 106, in saveuidvalidity
    newval = self.getuidvalidity()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py", line 73, in getuidvalidity
    self.selectro(imapobj)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py", line 50, in selectro
    imapobj.select(self.getfullname())
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/offlineimap/imapserver.py", line 50, in select
    raise ValueError, "Error from select: %s" % str(result)
ValueError: Error from select: ('NO', ['Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-01-20 04:50:44]'])

No debug messages were logged for Folder sync deepfire[mew-alias].

Release: Jaunty alpha 3

offlineimap:
  Installed: 6.0.3
  Candidate: 6.0.3
  Version table:
 *** 6.0.3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

This looks to be a problem with the server you are connecting to. The response from the server was:
NO Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-01-20 04:50:44]

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

Did you find out, if it was a server problem?

Also, which IMAP software is the server running; if you look in the offlineimap documentation there should be a list of problematic servers, is it one of those?

[Samium Gromoff (deepfire)]

From: Andreas Wenning <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 319060] Re: IMAP synchronisation fails in select
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:06:59 -0000

> Did you find out, if it was a server problem?

Yes, it turned out to be an IMAP server configuration problem.

Although I still had an impression that the error message could
have been more clear about what went wrong..

> Also, which IMAP software is the server running; if you look in the
> offlineimap documentation there should be a list of problematic servers,
> is it one of those?

Nope, it was dovecot.

regards, Samium Gromoff

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

Thanks for getting back about it. It's a chosen way of doing it by upstream, always to exit with a backtrace when an error occurs.