From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44240 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 15:48:33 +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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018533038 7366 127.0.0.1 (11 Apr 2002 13:50:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:50:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16veyC-0001ub-00 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:50:38 +0200 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 16vewf-0002HM-00; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:49:01 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:49:11 -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 IAA19580 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:49:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 23688 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2002 13:48:35 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23683 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2002 13:48:34 -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 13:48:34 -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 g3BDmXKY015843; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:48:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (jas@localhost) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.2/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g3BDmXun015840; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:48:33 +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:44240 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44240 On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Nevin Kapur wrote: > >> 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? > > 936 SELECT "INBOX" > 936 NO SELECT failed: Can't open INBOX (file /var/spool/mail/kapur): not in valid mailbox format > > I tried that. Here are the relevant lines. So the UW server does > give indication that something is amiss. It seems to work for me; subscribing to a non-existent group and trying to enter it yields 266 SELECT "INBOX.foo" 266 NO Det gick inte att hitta det begärda objektet. 267 SELECT "INBOX.foo" 267 NO Det gick inte att hitta det begärda objektet. and the following in the message buffer. nnimap+exno02:INBOX.foo error: Det gick inte att hitta det begärda objektet. Perhaps some other message was displayed after this making the error scroll by. Anything in the *Message* buffer?