Thanks - looks like it was a bad name somewhere. The name came back as an empty string and was bombing out. Tried a different account and it worked fine.
-Jim On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Leonel Câmara <[email protected]> wrote: > It's possible that one of your mailboxes has a name that after removing > all characters that should not be in table names becomes an empty string. > > imap.py does this > > # remove unwanted characters and store original names > # Don't allow leading non alphabetic characters > mailbox_name = re.sub('^[_0-9]*', '', re.sub('[^_\w]','',re.sub('[/ ]','_' > ,mailbox))) > > Later in define_tables IMAPAdapter uses the names of the mailboxes to > create a table for each one of them. I don't really know why this was > decided instead of just using a single table with a Field mailbox. > > If this is indeed the problem, this can be circumvented by passing the > mailbox_names argument to the IMAPAdapter define_tables call, this is a > dictionary where you give table names for each mailbox. It's of the form > {tablename: mailboxname}. > > That said you also found a bug in web2py because: > > if (not isinstance(tablename, str) or tablename[0] == '_' > > Should be > > if (not isinstance(tablename, str) or (not len(tablename)) or tablename[0] > == '_' > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/k__I7Mxg_aM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

