Re: Using nnimap

[Roland Mas <mas@echo.fr>]

Jérôme Marant (2001-08-25 01:35:39 +0200) :

>   My Internet provider asked me to give him a trace of the IMAP
>   exchanges between its IMAP server and my client.

  You can use Ethereal (or any other packet sniffer) for that.  I got
a log this way (included at end of message).

>   Moreover, I got a testimony from at least one person that could
>   not fetch the mail with nnimap from this problematic Internet
>   provider but succeeded with some others.

  If that was referring to me, I'm afraid I have to deny it.  I have
not succeeded any other IMAP access (the reason I thought it was
failing at work is simply that there's no IMAP server at work).

  Here goes the TCP session log.  Lines starting with "|> " are sent
by me, lines starting with "|< " are coming back from the server.

,----
|< * OK imap1-1.free.fr IMAP4rev1 v12.264 server ready
|> 1 CAPABILITY
|< * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4REV1 NAMESPACE IDLE SCAN SORT MAILBOX-REFERRALS LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=LOGIN THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
|< 1 OK CAPABILITY completed
|> 2 LOGIN "<login>" "<password>"
|< 2 OK LOGIN completed
|> 3 SELECT "INBOX"
|< * 1 EXISTS
|< * 0 RECENT
|< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 939242531] UID validity status
|< * OK [UIDNEXT 998759805] Predicted next UID
|< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
|< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Permanent flags
|< * OK [UNSEEN 1] first unseen message in INBOX
|< 3 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
|> 4 UID SEARCH RECENT
|< * SEARCH
|< 4 OK UID SEARCH completed
|> 5 EXAMINE "INBOX"
|< * 1 EXISTS
|< * 0 RECENT
|< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 939242531] UID validity status
|< * OK [UIDNEXT 998759805] Predicted next UID
|< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
|< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Permanent flags
|< * OK [UNSEEN 1] first unseen message in INBOX
|< 5 OK [READ-ONLY] EXAMINE completed
|> 6 CLOSE
|< 6 OK CLOSE completed
|> 7 EXAMINE "INBOX"
|< * 1 EXISTS
|< * 0 RECENT
|< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 939242531] UID validity status
|< * OK [UIDNEXT 998759805] Predicted next UID
|< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
|< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Permanent flags
|< * OK [UNSEEN 1] first unseen message in INBOX
|< 7 OK [READ-ONLY] EXAMINE completed
|> 8 FETCH 1,* UID
|< * 1 FETCH (UID 998759269)
|< 8 OK FETCH completed
`----

  Hope it'll help.

Roland.
-- 
Roland Mas

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