Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

 > > I occasionally (typically 2-3 times a day) get an IMAP BAD protocol error,
 > > after which my Emacs process hangs (C-g is ignored) and has to be killed.
 > > Here's the info from the *imap-debug* buffer:
 > >
 > >   1 -> imap-search: predicate="UNSEEN UNDELETED" buffer=nil
 > >   | 2 -> imap-mailbox-put: propname=search value=dummy mailbox=nil buffer=nil
 > >   | 2 <- imap-mailbox-put: t
 > >   | 2 -> imap-send-command-wait: command="UID SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED" buffer=nil
 > >   | | 3 -> imap-send-command: command="UID SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED" buffer=nil
 > >   | | | 4 -> imap-send-command-1: cmdstr="859 UID SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED"
 > >   | | | 4 <- imap-send-command-1: nil
 > >   | | 3 <- imap-send-command: 859
 > >   | | 3 -> imap-wait-for-tag: tag=859 buffer=nil
 > >   | | | 4 -> imap-arrival-filter: proc=#<process imap> string="855 BAD Protocol Error: \"Invalid ASTRING for folder name in STATUS command\"
 > >   "
 > >
 > > I'm using Debian Linux (woody), Emacs 21.2.1 and Oort Gnus v0.08 from the
 > > nightly CVS from 1st November 2002 and the IMAP server is MS Exchange:
 > >
 > >   1 -> imap-capability: identifier=IMAP4rev1 buffer=" *nnimap* hwmail01"
 > >   1 <- imap-capability: (IMAP4REV1 IDLE LITERAL+ LOGIN-REFERRALS MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE AUTH=NTLM)
 > >
 > >
 > > Has anyone else seen the above BAD Protocol error?  Any ideas what could cause
 > > it and what I might try to fix or workaround it?
 > 
 > Can you frob `imap-log' too and post the trailing part of the buffer
 > when this happens?  Thanks.

Hi Simon,

It's just happened again - I've attached the trailing part of the imap-log and
imap-debug buffers.

Thanks for any ideas on this...

    --- John