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Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@giotto.sj.ru> writes:

> Hi.
>
> I've meved one nnimap group into total-expire mode and expiration doe
> not work, since too many articles need to be expired (about 6000). I
> get in my *imap-log*:
>
> 30 BAD Command line too long

What was the commands before that?  Wasn't the range of articles
compressed?  Was it too long anyway?

> 31 STATUS "IMAP/debian.devel" (unseen)
> * NO CLIENT BUG DETECTED: STATUS on selected mailbox: IMAP/debian.devel
> * STATUS IMAP/debian.devel (UNSEEN 0)
> 31 OK STATUS completed

nnimap.el should probably use SEARCH UNSEEN instead, but the usage
above is perfectly fine according to the standard.  It is OK to ignore
this, unless the UNSEEN article count is wrong too.  This is probably
not what is causing your problem.