Re: Gnus - Exchange IMAP issues (can't enter INBOX)

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:18:19 -0600 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote: 
>
> TZ> I get an interesting error when trying to refresh INBOX on a MS Exchange
> TZ> server over IMAP.  I can't enter the INBOX, so it's annoying.  I haven't
> TZ> seen it before with other Exchange servers, so I don't know if 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.

The command was 'FETCH 1,* UID' and the response was '1775 BAD The
specified message set is invalid.' (btw, a imap-log output log would be
simpler to read than the imap-debug output).

Investigating why the server returns this message in response to that
command would help.  Is the mailbox perhaps close to empty?  Anyway,
this seems like a server bug to me.

I recall some servers have had problems returning data for 1,* queries
when the mailbox contains zero or one message.  Is this the case here?

As far as I can tell, it doesn't seem it is, since the imap-debug output
contains '9 EXISTS' so there should be 9 messages.  In that case, I have
no idea why the command fails.

/Simon