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Jody Klymak <jklymak@coas.oregonstate.edu> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I just changed institutions and added the local imap server as a
> secondary select method.  Things seemed OK until I tried to copy
> items from my old imap server's INBOX to my new imap server's INBOX.
> Now I can no longer enter the new server's INBOX.  I've attached the
> *Backtrace* and *imap-log*.   This is No Gnus v0.2.
>
> Unfortunately I do not have direct access to the server, or I'd wipe
> my INBOX and try again.  Renaming .newsrc.eld, Mail, and News on my
> client machine does not help matters.  
>
> What seems to have happened is that my flags now have a "\njklymak 1"
> entry that gnus doesn't like:  
> * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen  jklymak	l)

I can't reproduce this.  Evaluting (imap-parse-flag-list) when the
point is on the leading ( works here, on both emacsen.  The flag look
odd, it contains a TAB, but I can't see anything wrong with the code.
Can you M-x load-file RET /path/to/gnus/lisp/imap.el RET to get a
better backtrace?

> Should I simply ask my admins to wipe my mail spool on the new machine
> and start again?  

Let's try to debug it first.