Re: nnimap and Courier imapd

[Tom Vaughan <tvaughan@aventail.com>]

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Tom Vaughan <tvaughan@aventail.com> writes:

> I was just about to file exactly this same report. I've been able to access
> the Courier imap server with IMP just fine.

I've put up an imap-debug at:

        http://vaughan.to/tom/pub/imap-debug.gz

if anyone is interested. If there is any other information that's needed,
please let me know. I can even setup a shell acct. on the smtp/imap server
if need be. Thanks much. 

-Tom

> 
> -Tom
> 
> Marc Packenius <marc@freenet-rz.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We're trying to make our IMAPd and IMAP-proxies work with nnimap, as of yet
> > without success though.
> > 
> > It seems I can login and get an overview of the messages (which is displayed
> > in the Group buffer as count for unread and "all" messages), but when I try
> > to access one of the mails, I run into problems.
> > 
> > This is what I see:
> > 
> >   Starting gnus, the imap folder (nnimap+imap.freenet.de:inbox) displays a
> >   correct message count. The counts for new messages and all messages in
> >   the Group buffer are correct (e.g. 1/12).
> > 
> >   Whenever I try to enter the group, the number of new messages is set to 0
> >   (e.g. 0/12) in the Group buffer and Gnus displays "No unread news". If
> >   the count for new articles was 0, Gnus displays "No articles in the
> >   group".
> > 
> > We've compared the output from MS Exchange's imap server and from our
> > imapd. The author of the imapd server ("Courier imapd") states:
> > 
> > > Both of these responses appear to be perfectly correct. The differences
> > > are completely superficial.
> > 
> > Now we're lost. The problem doesn't seem to be with our imapd proxy (which
> > doesn't modify the data), nor with the imapd server we're using. I'm
> > including an Ethereal dump of what happens when I try to access the nnimap
> > folder.
> > 
> > Perhaps someone can point out where the problem lies? Please copy me on
> > your response; I'm following the ding list, but not as close as I would
> > like to...
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > -- 
> > Marc Packenius, QA
> > freenet.de AG, Entwicklungszentrum Düsseldorf
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Tom Vaughan <tvaughan at aventail dot com>
> 

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Tom Vaughan <tvaughan at aventail dot com>