From: Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>
To: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Cc: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>, Ding Mailing List <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Gnus - Exchange IMAP issues (can't enter INBOX)
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:32:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <764palk5my.fsf@dev-d01.ppllc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87od8tpskp.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:17:58 -0400")
>>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
SJ> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:18:19 -0600 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>>
TZ> I get an interesting error when trying to refresh INBOX on a MS
SJ> Exchange
TZ> server over IMAP. I can't enter the INBOX, so it's annoying. I
SJ> haven't
TZ> seen it before with other Exchange servers, so I don't know if
SJ> something
TZ> is misconfigured on my end...
>>
>> Since no one had ideas, I had to switch to nnmaildir and IMAP fetching
>> (hence the mail-source.el patch I posted earlier). Too bad, I'd still
>> like to understand why Exchange rejected simple IMAP commands and
>> Thunderbird works fine with the same server.
SJ> The command was 'FETCH 1,* UID' and the response was '1775 BAD The
SJ> specified message set is invalid.' (btw, a imap-log output log would be
SJ> simpler to read than the imap-debug output).
Which variable turns that one? I only saw the imap-debug variable.
SJ> Investigating why the server returns this message in response to that
SJ> command would help. Is the mailbox perhaps close to empty? Anyway,
SJ> this seems like a server bug to me.
SJ> I recall some servers have had problems returning data for 1,* queries
SJ> when the mailbox contains zero or one message. Is this the case here?
No, not at all. Hmmm. Actually, it does split my INBOX correctly, at
which point INBOX is empty. Could that be what's triggering the problem?
...Jake
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-01 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-28 21:18 Ted Zlatanov
2008-02-05 20:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-04-01 14:17 ` Simon Josefsson
2008-04-01 14:32 ` Jake Colman [this message]
2008-04-01 14:50 ` Simon Josefsson
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