Backup Gmail

argument must be 9-item sequence, not None

Bug #759801 reported by Brian Snipes on 2011-04-13

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Backup Gmail	Fix Committed	High	Joseph Wen

Bug Description

Initial backup gets to 50% and then errors out and program must be killed:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./gui.py", line 358, in run
    self.func(self.options, self.prog, True)
  File "/home/username/Apps/backup-gmail/backup_gmail.py", line 526, in doBackup
    backup.backupTo([options.start_date, options.end_date], overwrite, include_labels, exclude_labels)
  File "/home/username/Apps/backup-gmail/backup_gmail.py", line 351, in backupTo
    self.doBackup(date_range, include_labels, exclude_labels)
  File "/home/username/Apps/backup-gmail/backup_gmail.py", line 338, in doBackup
    self.fetchAllMail(date_range)
  File "/home/username/Apps/backup-gmail/backup_gmail.py", line 310, in fetchAllMail
    self.fetchAllLabel(date_range, exclude_labels)
  File "/home/username/Apps/backup-gmail/backup_gmail.py", line 299, in fetchAllLabel
    self.fetchMailByLabel(l, date_range)
  File "/home/username/Apps/backup-gmail/backup_gmail.py", line 222, in fetchMailByLabel
    self.fetchMail(uid, seen, label, size)
  File "/home/username/Apps/backup-gmail/backup_gmail.py", line 278, in fetchMail
    self.flushFetchMailRequest()
  File "/home/username/Apps/backup-gmail/backup_gmail.py", line 269, in flushFetchMailRequest
    self.processMail(rfc[1], *self.fetchBuffer[i])
  File "/home/username/Apps/backup-gmail/backup_gmail.py", line 237, in processMail
    fold = time.strftime("%Y-%m", date)
TypeError: argument must be 9-item sequence, not None

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Jay Gindin (jayg) wrote on 2011-04-13:

I'm also getting this. The first time I saw it, I re-ran the backup with the same parameters and it then worked. The second time I ran into it, it didn't work the second time.

I have:
  From: 01-Jan-2009
  To: 31-Dec-2009
  Keep read/unread

no labels were specified, and I did *not* choose an incremental backup.

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Tomáš Pikálek (tpikalek) wrote on 2011-04-13:

Also getting this. I run backup_gmail in console without any parameters, just entered folder, e-mail and password.

Joseph Wen (wenjoseph) on 2011-04-14

Changed in backup-gmail:
status:	New → Fix Committed
assignee:	nobody → Joseph Wen (wenjoseph)
importance:	Undecided → High

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Michael Schievelbein (hu6-michael-t16) wrote on 2011-08-05:

I am also receiving the same error.
I found out by using the Include option and playing around that there appears to be a limit of 9 labels on the account.
If you Include the labels <9 at a time, it works.

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C Fraire (cfraire) wrote on 2011-09-27:

Michael, there is no limit on the number of labels. The error is due to a message in your account that has no "Date:" which for you is being excluded when you run with a smaller set of labels.

wenjoseph fixed this in trunk revision 6. The Downloads for this project do not reflect the latest trunk code. You can get trunk revision 6 versions of backup_gmail.py and gui.py by browsing the code.

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