From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44228 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap silently ignores invalid mailboxes Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:00:31 +0200 (CEST) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018514813 2779 127.0.0.1 (11 Apr 2002 08:46:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:46:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([195.204.10.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16vaEG-0000Ze-01 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:46:52 +0200 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (malifon.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.13]) by hermes.netfonds.no (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g3B81df00296 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:01:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16vZVu-0008K7-00; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 03:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 11 Apr 2002 03:01:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA18317 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 03:01:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 1454 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2002 08:00:34 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1437 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2002 08:00:33 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 11 Apr 2002 08:00:33 -0000 Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3B80WKY013136; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:00:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (jas@localhost) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.2/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g3B80VtF013133; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:00:32 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: yxa.extundo.com: jas owned process doing -bs Original-To: Nevin Kapur In-Reply-To: Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44228 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44228 On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Nevin Kapur wrote: > Recently we had problems with our mail system so that my spool file > was no longer a valid mbox file (it started with rom_ instead of > From_). > > I use nnimap-split-fancy to split all incoming mail. Following the > corruption, I got no indication that INBOX was corrupted and mail just > kept piling up in there. I got suspicious after seemingly not > receiving any email for a day! > > I was hoping that there were some way that Gnus could warn me when > this situation occurred. When I tried accessing the corrupted INBOX > with other IMAP clients (pine and Evolution), I was given clear > indication that something was wrong. Hm, Gnus's imap stuff doesn't care about From at all, it retrieves articles using IMAP commands. I guess the server was confused and didn't return any messages, but I don't understand why other clients would work in that case. Could you delete the F in your spool file and experiment a little to see what fails? Ah. Maybe the server does report something to the client, but Gnus doesn't display it. What does other clients display as error? If you use Gnus, how does the *imap-log* (see imap-log) buffer look around the error message?