Re: Removing offlineimap?

["William Brawner" <me%wbrawner.com@localhost>]

On Mon Jun 22, 2026 at 5:30 AM MDT, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> I was under the impression that offlineimap3 is a separate
> project. Many distributions have packaged it under that name (with the
> '3'), see https://repology.org/project/offlineimap/versions

This is my understanding as well. As far as I can tell, offlineimap is just in
maintenance mode while offlineimap3 is still under active development.
Offlineimap3 seems to be a fork with different maintainers but still under the
same GitHub org.

On Mon Jun 22, 2026 at 5:39 AM MDT, Greg Troxel wrote:
> What doesn't make sense is that upstream is installing bin/offlineimap,
> not bin/offlineimap3.

I agree, this does seem strange. If we do decide to keep offlineimap around
we'll have to note that it conflicts with offlineimap3.

On Mon Jun 22, 2026 at 5:30 AM MDT, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> I'm fine with just replacing offlineimap with this. I'll wait for more
> feedback.

I can't imagine there's any reason to continue using offlineimap, and if someone
still needed it, it's trivial to install with just the following command (in a
Python 2 environment):

    pip install git+https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap

In other words, I vote for replacing offlineimap with offlineimap3.

Cheers,
William Brawner