Re: nnimap and Courier imapd

[Tom Vaughan <tvaughan@aventail.com>]

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

-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
> 
> 
> 

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Tom Vaughan <tvaughan at aventail dot com>