Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
Using OfflineIMAP as a solution to synchronise and secure a second copies of messages.
When a message contains a header line as
Message-ID: <>
This causes a crash of the message header parsing of OfflineIMAP :
ERROR: Copying message 66358 [acc: XXXXXX]
list index out of range
Thread 'Copy message from XXXXXX-remote:INBOX' terminated with exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/email/_header_value_parser.py", line 2069, in get_msg_id
token, value = get_dot_atom_text(value)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/email/_header_value_parser.py", line 1334, in get_dot_atom_text
raise errors.HeaderParseError("expected atom at a start of "
email.errors.HeaderParseError: expected atom at a start of dot-atom-text but found '>'
This crash also inhibit OfflineIMAP from synchronising any message which is later in the IMAP list.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Currently, the only workaround is to suppress such messages from the originating mailbox.
* What was the outcome of this action?
The message is not archived (indeed, even worse : it is completely deleted), but the synchronisation can go on
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Both that the message is synchronised (as any other message) and the process continue to synchronise all the rest of the mailbox.
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