Re: nnimap fails to fetch some articles

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Bjorn Solberg <bjorn_ding@hekneby.org> writes:

> When I do 5 RET to fetch the last 5 messages, I consistently only get 3,
> missing some in-between: It's getting N-3, N-1 and N, skipping N-4 and
> N-2.
>
> If I fetch the last 6 messages, it skips N-5 in addition.
>
> If I fetch the last 7 messages, it skips the same as for 6 but fetches
> message# N-6.
>
> The full *imap-log* is 800 lines long for the 5 RET, see below for the
> last 400+ lines.  It looks like it's issuing the correct command, "UID
> FETCH 780:784 [...]" but for some reason it doesn't display the first and
> third of those last 5 messages.

I didn't spot any problem in the IMAP log.

After you have entered the group with 5 RET, what is in the " *nntpd*"
buffer?  Note leading SPC.

One idea is that the IMAP parser doesn't understand the responses and
skip the article, in that case the *nntpd* buffer would only contain
the information from three of the articles.