On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 10:11 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach martin f krafft <madd...@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?
