Problems with imap and davmail

Problems with imap and davmail

[Mario Peter]

Hi everybody,

after 10 years of happly using gnus in our firm i'm now forced to use
davmail to get imap access to our exchange server :-(( . Unfortunally
it seems not to be as so easy as I thought, all try's to get an active
list of the mailbox get failed. My setup is quite simple (gnus is
recent from git)  :
------
(setq  gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '( ....
        (nnimap "localhost"
                (nnimap-server-address "localhost")
                (nnimap-server-port 1143))
      ....
------
I get authenticated without problems:

----
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 AUTH=LOGIN] IMAP4rev1 DavMail server ready
9 NOOP
9 BAD command authentication required
10 LOGIN "user" "pass"
10 OK Authenticated
11 NOOP
11 OK NOOP completed
-----

thats all. other imap accounts start at this point with LIST "" "*%"
.   The nnimap output is as follows:
-----
======================================================================
1 -> nnimap-server-opened: server="localhost"
1 <- nnimap-server-opened: t
======================================================================
1 -> nnimap-request-list: server="localhost"
| 2 -> nnimap-possibly-change-server: server="localhost"
| 2 <- nnimap-possibly-change-server: " *nnimap* localhost"
| 2 -> nnimap-before-find-minmax-bugworkaround:
| 2 <- nnimap-before-find-minmax-bugworkaround: t
| 2 -> nnimap-pattern-to-list-arguments: pattern="*"
| 2 <- nnimap-pattern-to-list-arguments: ((nil . "*"))
---

And here is what gnus says when entering the server in server buffer
(look at the 'agent-min' value for imap-mailbox-put...):
-----
Debugger entered--Lisp error:
(error "Imap-mailbox-data is nil, prop list value nil mailbox agent-min
   buffer  *nnimap* localhost")
 signal(error ("Imap-mailbox-data is nil, prop list value nil mailbox
   agent-min buffer  *nnimap* localhost"))
error("Imap-mailbox-data is nil, prop %s value %s mailbox %s buffer
  %s" list nil "agent-min" #<buffer  *nnimap* localhost>)
  (if imap-mailbox-data (put (intern ... imap-mailbox-data) propname
  value) (error "Imap-mailbox-data is nil, prop %s value %s mailbox %s
  buffer %s" propname value mailbox (current-buffer)))
(save-current-buffer (set-buffer (or buffer ...)) (if
  imap-mailbox-data (put ... propname value) (error "Imap-mailbox-data
  is nil, prop %s value %s mailbox %s buffer %s" propname value mailbox
  ...)) t)
(with-current-buffer (or buffer (current-buffer)) (if imap-mailbox-data
  (put ... propname value) (error "Imap-mailbox-data is nil, prop %s value
  %s mailbox %s buffer %s" propname value mailbox ...)) t)
  imap-mailbox-put(list nil "agent-min")
 (lambda (mailbox) (imap-mailbox-put (quote list) nil mailbox))("agent-min")
   funcall((lambda (mailbox) (imap-mailbox-put (quote list) nil mailbox))
   "agent-min")
 (cons (funcall func (if mailbox-decoder ... ...)) result)
 (setq result (cons (funcall func ...) result))
 (push (funcall func (if mailbox-decoder ... ...)) result)
 (lambda (s) (push (funcall func ...) result))(agent-min)
 mapatoms((lambda (s) (push (funcall func ...) result)) nil)
 (let (result) (mapatoms (lambda ... ...) imap-mailbox-data) result)
 (save-current-buffer (set-buffer (or buffer ...)) (let (result)
(mapatoms ... imap-mailbox-data) result))
 (with-current-buffer (or buffer (current-buffer)) (let (result)
(mapatoms ... imap-mailbox-data) result))
 imap-mailbox-map-1((lambda (mailbox) (imap-mailbox-put (quote list)
nil mailbox)))
 (save-current-buffer (set-buffer (or buffer ...)) (when (and
add-delimiter ...) (imap-send-command-wait ...)) (imap-mailbox-map-1
(lambda ... ...)) (when (imap-ok-p ...) (let ... ... ...)))
 (with-current-buffer (or buffer (current-buffer)) (when (and
add-delimiter ...) (imap-send-command-wait ...)) (imap-mailbox-map-1
(lambda ... ...)) (when (imap-ok-p ...) (let ... ... ...)))
 imap-mailbox-list("*" nil)
 ad-Orig-nnimap-request-list("localhost")
 nnimap-request-list("localhost")
 gnus-request-list((nnimap "localhost" (nnimap-server-address
"localhost") (nnimap-server-port 1143)))
 gnus-browse-foreign-server("nnimap:localhost" #<buffer *Server*>)
 gnus-server-read-server("nnimap:localhost")
 call-interactively(gnus-server-read-server nil nil)
--------

The davmail setup seems to be ok, because thunderbird works perfectly.

Is there any idea what goes wrong here?  Thanks in advance for looking
on this !!!!!

Mario Peter

Re: Problems with imap and davmail

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:30:07 +0200, Mario wrote:

> after 10 years of happly using gnus in our firm i'm now forced to use
> davmail to get imap access to our exchange server :-((

Just for reference: I use IMAP at work as a glorified POP-server, i.e. I
simply pull down emails from Microsoft Exchange into my local
nnml-groups via IMAP.

This is descibed in the manual here: http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_178.html ("imap").

This way I don't have to interact much with the IMAP-server; it works
fine for me.

(If you need to use other clients once in a while, this may not be a
good solution, I just thought I'd mention it as a way to live with
Microsoft Exchange).


  Best regards,

     Adam

-- 
 "My internal clock is on Tokyo time."                        Adam Sjøgren
                                                         asjo@koldfront.dk

Re: Problems with imap and davmail

[Mario Peter]

2010/6/29 Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk>:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:30:07 +0200, Mario wrote:
>
>> after 10 years of happly using gnus in our firm i'm now forced to use
>> davmail to get imap access to our exchange server :-((
>
> Just for reference: I use IMAP at work as a glorified POP-server, i.e. I
> simply pull down emails from Microsoft Exchange into my local
> nnml-groups via IMAP.

I've thought about using fetchmail too, if there is no other solution, i would
do it so. But I was used to have the mails on the exchange server for a
while before 'expiring' them to my local spool. I would prefer this way,
if possible.

Regards, Mario

Re: Problems with imap and davmail

[K. Adam Christensen]

Mario Peter <empee0 <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> after 10 years of happly using gnus in our firm i'm now forced to use
> davmail to get imap access to our exchange server ( . Unfortunally
> it seems not to be as so easy as I thought, all try's to get an active
> list of the mailbox get failed. My setup is quite simple (gnus is
> recent from git)  :
> 

Hi Mario,

Did you ever find a solution to this problem?  I have run into this same issue
myself.

Thank you,
- Adam

Re: Problems with imap and davmail

[Mario Peter]

On Oct 18 2010, 22:20, K. Adam Christensen <pope@shifteleven.com> wrote:

> Mario Peter <empee0 <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>> 
>> after 10 years of happly using gnus in our firm i'm now forced to use
>> davmail to get imap access to our exchange server ( . Unfortunally
>> it seems not to be as so easy as I thought, all try's to get an active
>> list of the mailbox get failed. My setup is quite simple (gnus is
>> recent from git)  :
>
> Did you ever find a solution to this problem?  I have run into this same issue
> myself.

yes, i use the rewritten nnimap backend and this works very well.

Thanks for your work Lars!

Mario
-- 
Mario Peter
de,pl,en
http://www.mpeter.de

Re: Problems with imap and davmail

[Martin Gross]

Hi Mario

Since I am getting the same problem, I would like to try your solution, but am
not as experienced as you are, so could you please explaine a little how to
update the nnimap back-end?

Thank you very much in advance!

Martin