offlineimap

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2010–2017), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with offlineimap, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Found offlineimap slow and buggy when syncing mail2017-06-16
Very hard to get syncing working, so the commenter switched tools2016-09-23
Stops checking for mail after an hour or two, forcing a cron restart workaround2015-09-08
Buggy email sync that only sometimes works2013-06-30
Can't quit out of an endless password prompt loop2010-10-05