On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 10:11 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach martin f krafft madduck@madduck.net [2011.06.13.1002 +0200]:
One user reports continuous problems synchronising her mailbox via IMAP (offlineimap, via SSH tunnel or SSL socket). It seems that she has a large, locally-created message, but the uplink bandwidth seems to be not enough to push it before dovecot times out the APPEND command.
Upon further inspection, we found that the message *does* get saved remotely. Hence, this seems like an offlineimap problem, timing out because it receives no responses to APPEND (because the transfer takes so long). The transfer actually completes, but offlineimap will have given up by then already.
Has anyone else seen this?
Can you confirm this behaviour?
What should offlineimap be doing differently?
Timing out after only 30 seconds seems a bit aggressive to me, especially if you're uploading a large message over a slow network connection. Isn't it configurable?