On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 08:02:56PM +0200, Benoît wrote: > Hi,
Hi, > 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. > 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 -- Nicolas Sebrecht _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org
