Re: Cannot write to write-only IMAP mailbox

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:59:49 -0400 Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> wrote: 

NR> I reported this bug a while ago and there has been no reply at all. I
NR> just wanted to bring the issue up again in case someone has some time
NR> available now that he might be willing to spend on this:

NR> On my IMAP server I have a group called "unrecognized-ham" that cannot
NR> be read by anyone, but can be looked up and inserted to by anyone. As
NR> the name suggests, mail in this folder is automatically analyzed to
NR> correct mistakes made by a bayesian spam classifier.

NR> Unfortunately it is not possible to access this group with gnus. When
NR> I am in a different IMAP mailbox and try to copy a message with B c,
NR> gnus complains that the group does not exist. Any attempt to create it
NR> fails of course. Also I cannot see the group when using group apropos
NR> and I cannot subscribe to it with U.

NR> In Thunderbird, there is no problem at all. The group is visible and I
NR> can copy messages into it.

It seems the problem is here:

> 49 EXAMINE "Shared.unrecognized-ham"
> 49 NO Permission denied

So nnimap tried to look at the contents of the group before writing to
it.  This can probably be avoided for this special case, and is most
likely happening in imap-mailbox-select.  Could you provide the nnimap
logs (obtained similarly to the imap logs)?

Thanks
Ted