Big things in small pieces

Offlineimap and some troubles

Before a few weeks offlineimap stopped to work.

I do not know what was the reason for that but after some time of research I found what was wrong.

To make it clear, I am using the “pythonfile=” option in my offlineimaprc config file that enables using the Keychain Access app in OS X because I do not store any plain text passwords in my config file so the python file which is defined with the option above redirects at every login the Keychain Access app where are stored my passwords.

The error I got every time the last few weeks was:

‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘group’.

To make it short, I found out that somehow my login internet passwords from Keychain Access for offlineimap were deleted. How, I do not know buy luckily I found it out running offlineimap with the “-1 -d imap” option. I saw that the login failed and I started looking around what could go wrong and found what went wrong.

If you are using offlineimap for making backups of your email accounts, don’t store any plain text passwords in your config file and use Keychain Access instead.

Here is a great tutorial by Steve Losh for the offlineimap configuration (also for the Keychain Access option).

UPDATE:

Here is a how-to if you want to use gpg instead of Keychain Access.