Nicolas Sebrecht

Could you elablorate how to run into this issue? I couldn't reproduce this bug. What I did: 1. Configure local repo with `sep = /` 2. Fresh new sync 3....

> So the only thing left to this issue is the wired handling of quotes for this attribute compared to the other ones. e.g. if sep within [mbnames] is set...

You might like to check the Maildir driver `offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py`.

There is already the `newmail_hook` feature. I agree this is currently limited and it might be interesting to deprecate this in favor of a new configuration option (`newmail_hook_eval`?) calling Python...

I agree with @dolohow that this specific feature is not generic enough.

> Once again, if application wants to observe that kind of operations, it should use fs specific features like aforementioned inotify. This is why it was created in the first...

@avar If you're still interested, I'll make a patch to get you started.

Here's a start. I've made a quick mapping between the real changes in the Maildir and a Notify object. All of this code must be taken cautiously and double checked...

Branch rebased on top on `next`. https://github.com/nicolas33/offlineimap/tree/b367 Does this patch help?

I've never hit such memory consumption. I guess OfflineIMAP is used in a long runtime process which is something I never do. What's your configuration file?