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I'm not very well versed in all things launchd but I wrote this plist file that periodically runs offlineimap to fetch new mail from IMAP servers:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
      <string>net.dpo.offlineimap</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
      <array>
          <string>/usr/local/bin/offlineimap</string>
          <string>-o</string>
      </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
      <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
      <true/>
    <key>ProcessType</key>
      <string>Background</string>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
      <integer>1800</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

The file is located in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/net.dpo.offlineimap.plist.

The issue is that the process doesn't seem to wake up when I wake the computer from sleep. Running

$ launchctl stop net.dpo.offlineimap
$ launchctl start net.dpo.offlineimap

reactivates it, but that seems to defeat the KeepAlive option.

I tried using

<key>KeepAlive</key>
  <dict>
    <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
      <true/>
    <key>NetworkState</key>
      <true/>
  </dict>

but I observe the same behavior. I'm on OSX 10.9. My ~/.offlineimaprc doesn't use the autorefresh option.

Is anything wrong with the plist file?

Thanks in advance!

Dominique
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Well, I may be misunderstanding the meaning of KeepAlive. It turns out Homebrew distributed a plist file with offlineimap that does the job:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <false/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>homebrew.mxcl.offline-imap</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/usr/local/opt/offline-imap/bin/offlineimap</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>300</integer>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true />
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/dev/null</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/dev/null</string>
  </dict>
</plist>

The daemon now survives sleep.

Dominique
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