Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > I was looking into this error and this has been caused by an upstream > commit which is supposed to be an improvement for new users. More > details at > https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap3/issues/41#issuecomment-778798223. > > The attached patch should fix this. > > @Joey Hess It will be great if you test the patch and confirm if it > fixes your problem.
It does, but only after I fixed an unrelated problem:
OfflineIMAP 7.3.0
Licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or any later version (with an OpenSSL exception)
imaplib2 v3.05, Python v3.9.1+, OpenSSL 1.1.1i 8 Dec 2020
Account sync joey:
*** Processing account joey
Establishing connection to kitenet.net:993 (kite)
ERROR: While attempting to sync account 'joey'
sequence item 2: expected str instance, bytes found
*** Finished account 'joey' in 0:03
ERROR: Exceptions occurred during the run!
ERROR: While attempting to sync account 'joey'
sequence item 2: expected str instance, bytes found
Traceback:
File "/usr/share/offlineimap3/offlineimap/accounts.py", line 298, in
syncrunner
self.__sync()
File "/usr/share/offlineimap3/offlineimap/accounts.py", line 374, in __sync
remoterepos.getfolders()
File "/usr/share/offlineimap3/offlineimap/repository/IMAP.py", line 646, in
getfolders
imapobj = self.imapserver.acquireconnection()
File "/usr/share/offlineimap3/offlineimap/imapserver.py", line 592, in
acquireconnection
self.__authn_helper(imapobj)
File "/usr/share/offlineimap3/offlineimap/imapserver.py", line 449, in
__authn_helper
if func(imapobj):
File "/usr/share/offlineimap3/offlineimap/imapserver.py", line 375, in
__authn_plain
imapobj.authenticate('PLAIN', self.__plainhandler)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/imaplib2.py", line 691, in authenticate
typ, dat = self._simple_command('AUTHENTICATE', mechanism.upper())
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/imaplib2.py", line 1684, in
_simple_command
return self._command_complete(self._command(name, *args), kw)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/imaplib2.py", line 1404, in _command
literal = literator(data, rqb)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/imaplib2.py", line 2247, in process
ret = self.mech(self.decode(data))
File "/usr/share/offlineimap3/offlineimap/imapserver.py", line 217, in
__plainhandler
retval = NULL.join((authz, authc, passwd))
Which seems to be caused by remotepassfile being set, pointing at a file
that contained a password in plain text. I unset that and it prompted
for the password and worked.
(Also I remember seeing this "expected str instance" failure before,
when I was trying lots of config file changes to work around the ssl cert
problem, so one of those changes must have worked at the time. I don't
remember what change it was.)
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