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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: imap expiration trouble
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:49:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluk7jbw9dg.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vg2wchlw.fsf@pale.sj.ru> (Alexander Kotelnikov's message of "Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:59:23 +0300")

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

>>>>>> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:43:10 +0100
>>>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
> SJ> 
> SJ> 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
> SJ> 
> SJ> What was the commands before that?  Wasn't the range of articles
> SJ> compressed?  Was it too long anyway?
>
> It was. It was a list of numbers from 1 to ~6000
> 29 OK UID SEARCH completed
> 30 UID STORE 1,2,3,4,5,6
> ...
> 6102,6103,6104,6105,6106,6107,6108,6109,6110,6111,6112 +FLAGS (\Deleted)
> 30 BAD Command line too long
> 31 STATUS "IMAP/debian.devel" (unseen)

Ouch.  Should be fixed in CVS now.

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

I meant that the latter part of your log didn't cause the problem
(even though the error message from the server might have suggested
that), the problem with the long line did.




      reply	other threads:[~2002-11-18  8:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-17 13:14 Alexander Kotelnikov
2002-11-17 15:43 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-11-17 15:59   ` Alexander Kotelnikov
2002-11-18  8:49     ` Simon Josefsson [this message]

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