[Mailsync-list] imapclient keeps asking for password for every folder

[Ganesan R <rga...@de...>]

Hi,

I am facing the same problem as the one mentioned in the debian bug CC'd
above. mailsync keeps asking for a password for each folder when no password
is configured. Even if I enter a password in the .mailsync mailsync keeps
closing the connection and opening a new one for every folder.

Tomas Pospisek wrote:
>                               I probably won't have the time to fix this
> before holidays [10.6-10.7]. My hypothesis is, that den connection is
> being closed when a mailbox is finished. If anybody wants to have a look
> at it, please do so.

Access to my imap server is rather slow, so I tried to dig into the problem.
The problem appears to be caused by this code starting line 213 in channel.cc

============
  // strangely enough, following Mark Crispin, if you write into
  // an open stream then it'll mark new messages as seen.
  //
  // So if we want to write to a remote mailbox we have to
  // HALF_OPEN the stream and if we're working on a local
  // mailbox then we have to use a NIL stream.
  if (store_to.isremote) {
    if(! store_to.store_open( OP_HALFOPEN) ) {
      fprintf( stderr, "Error: Couldn't open store %s\n",
		       store_to.name.c_str());
      return 0;
    }
  } else { ...
==========

Inside the debugger, I notice that store_to.store_open() calles mail_open(),
mail_open() closes the stream! I looked into c-client sources, and I find
that mail.c closes the old stream if you pass the OP_HALFOPEN flag and the
old stream is not half-opened. May be some one can dig around deeper. Please
Cc me because I am not subscribed to this list.

Ganesan