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Failure when files changed between invokation and actual sync.

Open darnir opened this issue 10 years ago • 3 comments

I sent SIGUSR1 to offlineimap to force a complete sync with the servers. However, before it could complete the sync process, the local mailbox files were deleted by the mail client.

This caused offlineimap to error out and spews a stack trace on the screen. Such a race condition should be handled more elegantly.

darnir avatar Dec 02 '14 12:12 darnir

You're plain right. I expect such race conditions in the other way (remote changes not handled gracefully). This is a well know topic for years but it requires time to get properly addressed.

nicolas33 avatar Jan 09 '15 02:01 nicolas33

TODO: add this into the "known issues" of the man page.

nicolas33 avatar Mar 18 '15 22:03 nicolas33

Added to "known issues".

nicolas33 avatar Mar 19 '15 16:03 nicolas33