[SOLVED] OfflineIMAP Infinite folder creation detected

I've upgraded offlineIMAP and got the following error message:
ERROR: INFINITE FOLDER CREATION DETECTED! Folder '[Gmail].Sent Mail' (repository 'Severusweb-Local') would be created as folder '[Gmail]/Sent Mail' (repository 'Severusweb-Remote'). The latter becomes 'sent_mail' in return, leading to infinite folder creation cycles. SOLUTION: 1) Do set your nametrans rules on both repositories so they lead to identical names if applied back and forth. 2) Use folderfilter settings on a repository to prevent
some folders from being created on the other side.
My .offlineimaprc
Last edited by pshevtsov (2011-11-26 09:31:28)

yep, weird one. nuking my Mail dir would be a problem i believe for me due to archives (not all imap) and the huge think and not so huge brain.
I'm gonna try some of this.
http://francoismichonneau.net/2011/11/o … map-6-4-1/
http://francoismichonneau.net/2011/06/e … flineimap/
UPDATE: ahhh! i think i only need to delete the empty not needed folders in my Mail dir.
thank you!!!
Last edited by tweed (2011-12-08 07:46:07)

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OfflineIMAP: Infinite Folder Creation Detected

Hello Arch Forums!
I'm configuring OfflineIMAP 6.5.6-1 with Gmail.
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However, the wiki page says I need one that counteracts the other nametrans rule, and I don't know if this does it.
Now when I start OfflineIMAP I get:
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Licensed under the GNU GPL v2+ (v2 or any later version)
Account sync [email protected]:
*** Processing account [email protected]
Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993
ERROR: INFINITE FOLDER CREATION DETECTED! Folder '[Gmail].All Mail' (repository '[email protected]') would be created as folder 'bak/all_mail' (repository '[email protected]'). The latter becomes 'bak.all_mail' in return, leading to infinite folder creation cycles.
SOLUTION: 1) Do set your nametrans rules on both repositories so they lead to identical names if applied back and forth. 2) Use folderfilter settings on a repository to prevent some folders from being created on the other side.
*** Finished account '[email protected]' in 0:07
Next refresh in 5.0 minutes
Is there anything esle I should do to the local nametrans rule?

I changed my local repository:
nametrans = lambda foldername: re.sub ('bak', '^\[gmail\]',
re.sub ('sent', 'sent_mail',
re.sub ('flagged', 'starred',
re.sub ('_', ' ', foldername.lower()))))
Still, getting the same error
I also tried using your nametrans rules, which led me to:
OfflineIMAP 6.5.5
Licensed under the GNU GPL v2+ (v2 or any later version)
Account sync [email protected]:
*** Processing account [email protected]
Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993
ERROR: INFINITE FOLDER CREATION DETECTED! Folder 'bak.spam' (repository '[email protected]') would be created as folder 'bak/[Gmail]/Spam' (repository '[email protected]'). The latter becomes 'spam' in return, leading to infinite folder creation cycles.
SOLUTION: 1) Do set your nametrans rules on both repositories so they lead to identical names if applied back and forth. 2) Use folderfilter settings on a repository to prevent some folders from being created on the other side.
*** Finished account '[email protected]' in 0:04
Next refresh in 5.0 minutes
Last edited by SwitchDhole (2015-04-04 18:18:38)

[SOLVED] offlineimap + gmail and nametrans rule

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Last edited by asd01 (2012-06-07 13:06:05)

asd01 ...
The documentation and config examples seems to be somewhat askew in regard to reverse-nametrans, though a "warning" is given in the docs, the example config files only provide 'remote' nametrans, with no suggestion that the 'reverse' is required. This may be an oversight, but they have been updated in other regards (such as the need to encoded '%' as '%%').
So, 'warnings' aside, I'm using 6.5.4 (self maintained ebuild, yes Gentoo, not Arch) and I only provide the 'remote' nametrans and have no problem sync'ing both ways.
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In your case you might try using 'folderincludes =' for folder creation (on remote), and something similar to the above for the 'standard' folders you want sync'ed, ie '[Gmail].All', but only under the 'remote' section.
My gmail account is just a spam trap and so I'm not really worried if it all goes to hell, on my main mail account I've no need to translate so I can only say it works in regard to Gmail.
It might be worth querying the author in the regard, there are other sections of the documentation (like the CACert creation) which are simply wrong, so, I would say, go with what works ..
HTH in some way ...
best .. khayyam

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