From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66640 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus - Exchange IMAP issues (can't enter INBOX) Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:50:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87fxu5iq7r.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> References: <861w81644k.fsf@lifelogs.com> <867ihjqgf0.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87od8tpskp.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> <764palk5my.fsf@dev-d01.ppllc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207061516 4217 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2008 14:51:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:51:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , Ding Mailing List To: Jake Colman Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15125@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Apr 01 16:52:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jghpy-0003nN-Oa for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:51:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JghpJ-0003T6-0o; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JghpH-0003Sm-FZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:51:03 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JghpB-0001bv-DS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:51:03 -0500 Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com ([83.241.177.38]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JghpK-0002Ad-00 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:51:06 +0200 Original-Received: from mocca.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [83.241.177.38]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id m31EomnV008769 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:50:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: <764palk5my.fsf@dev-d01.ppllc.com> (Jake Colman's message of "Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:32:21 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt X-Hashcash: 1:22:080401:tzz@lifelogs.com::7zoZL3iSOtfQIBZL:0V9r X-Hashcash: 1:22:080401:colman@ppllc.com::lF788JwDF12B4XC2:1zvp X-Hashcash: 1:22:080401:ding@gnus.org::yvvCcZhpjYJrkhEQ:IAUz X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=4.0 tests=SPF_PASS autolearn=disabled version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on yxa-iv X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.2, clamav-milter version 0.88.2 on yxa.extundo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66640 Archived-At: Jake Colman writes: >>>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson writes: > > SJ> Ted Zlatanov writes: > >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:18:19 -0600 Ted Zlatanov 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. Try 'imap-log'. > 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? I couldn't tell, and even if it is, it would still only be a bug in the server. There is now a workaround for this bug in the code, so I think without more evidence or patches we can't do anything more. /Simon