Re: gcc-mark-as-read sometimes broken on Exchange

[david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg)]

>> Oh!  I asked you to eval something, and you did.  Tee hee.  Never mind.
>> But try evaling this:

>> (nnimap-request-accept-article "INBOX" "cyrus")

> This works properly with both cyrus and exchange.  The return is a
> cons of the folder name and resulting article number.  No matter how
> many times I run it, I never get nil.  I'll try stepping through
> gnus-inews-do-gcc and see if I can find the glitch.

OK, it took a long time (especially since stepping through every gcc with edebug, and then figuring out which functions to edebug-defun) to actually hit the problem and again it only happens on occasion with the Exchange server, but after several dozen gcc's I finally hit the bug.  The problem shows up around the bottom of nnimap-request-accept-article.

After successfully appending the article into the group, we get to this code:

	    (cons group
		  (or (nnimap-find-uid-response "APPENDUID" (car result))
		      (nnimap-find-article-by-message-id
		       group message-id)))))))))

And both return nil.  Unfortunately, I'm not sure which one is returning successfully when it does work because I wasn't stepping through nnimap-request-accept-article at the time.  I'll keep stepping through everything but it seems that it takes several tries before I hit the bug, once I do I hit it all the time.  On the plus side, I now know exactly which function to debug so I'll save a bit of time with further stepping.

Thanks,
-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net