recent nnimap LIST change broke Exchange 2003

recent nnimap LIST change broke Exchange 2003

[Robert Pluim]

This:

commit af87b909b94f902b24687a9f53a74beb3c52ff7f
Author: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@quimbies.gnus.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 26 02:00:28 2010 +0100

    (nnimap-get-groups): Reimplement to work with folded lines.

caused this:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p a-group)
  utf7-encode(a-group t)
  nnimap-request-list("mymail")
  gnus-request-list((nnimap "mymail" (nnimap-address "mail.mycompany.com") (nnimap-server-port 993) (nnimap-expunge t) (nnir-search-engine imap) (nnimap-stream ssl)))
  gnus-read-active-file-1((nnimap "mymail" (nnimap-address "mail.mycompany.com") (nnimap-server-port 993) (nnimap-expunge t) (nnir-search-engine imap) (nnimap-stream ssl)) nil)
  gnus-read-active-file(nil nil)
  gnus-setup-news(nil nil nil)
  byte-code("..." [gnus-slave gnus-current-startup-file gnus-startup-file did-connect level dont-connect gnus-group-quit gnus-run-hooks gnus-startup-hook gnus-make-newsrc-file gnus-dribble-read-file gnus-request-create-group "queue" (nndraft "") "drafts" (nndraft "") gnus-setup-news nil gnus-setup-news-hook gnus-start-draft-setup gnus-group-list-groups gnus-group-first-unread-group gnus-configure-windows group gnus-group-set-mode-line gnus-started-hook gnus-use-dribble-file gnus-agent] 4)
  gnus-1(nil nil nil)
  gnus(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus)
  command-execute(gnus t)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
  (dispatch-event "[internal]")

This is on XEmacs 21.5  (beta29) "garbanzo" d27c1ee1943b+ [Lucid]
(i686-pc-cygwin, Mule) of Mon Oct 18 2010 on RPluim

It looks like you're expecting `read' to return a string, and it
isn't. I had a look at the output of the LIST command, and it looks ok,
except that the groupnames are not in double quotes, except when they
contain a space.

Regards

Robert

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Re: recent nnimap LIST change broke Exchange 2003

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> It looks like you're expecting `read' to return a string, and it
> isn't. I had a look at the output of the LIST command, and it looks ok,
> except that the groupnames are not in double quotes, except when they
> contain a space.

Ah.  All my test servers seemed to return "group" names, so I assumed
that was the standard.

I've applied a quick-and-dirty fix to git Gnus.  Does it fix the problem?

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Re: recent nnimap LIST change broke Exchange 2003

[Robert Pluim]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It looks like you're expecting `read' to return a string, and it
>> isn't. I had a look at the output of the LIST command, and it looks ok,
>> except that the groupnames are not in double quotes, except when they
>> contain a space.
>
> Ah.  All my test servers seemed to return "group" names, so I assumed
> that was the standard.
>
> I've applied a quick-and-dirty fix to git Gnus.  Does it fix the problem?

Yes. My local hack used `symbol-name', but yours is perhaps cleaner :)

Cheers

Robert

Re: recent nnimap LIST change broke Exchange 2003

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes. My local hack used `symbol-name', but yours is perhaps cleaner :)

No, but I was wondering whether, for instance, some weird servers out
there used numerical mailbox names.  Like 12.4.  In which case,
`symbol-name' wouldn't work.

I think the real fix is to not use `read' unless the name begins with a
quote char.

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Spaces in gcc group names

[Robert Pluim]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yes. My local hack used `symbol-name', but yours is perhaps cleaner :)
>
> No, but I was wondering whether, for instance, some weird servers out
> there used numerical mailbox names.  Like 12.4.  In which case,
> `symbol-name' wouldn't work.

See, I told you yours was cleaner :) I don't have any group names like
that, but there's nothing preventing me from creating them.

> I think the real fix is to not use `read' unless the name begins with a
> quote char.

That reminds me of a related issue: when I gcc to "nnimap+mymail:Sent
Items", the copy ends up in `Sent' on the server. Is this supposed to
work? Or do I have to add in some quotes myself somewhere?

Cheers

Robert

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Re: Spaces in gcc group names

[Dave Goldberg]

> That reminds me of a related issue: when I gcc to "nnimap+mymail:Sent
> Items", the copy ends up in `Sent' on the server. Is this supposed to
> work? Or do I have to add in some quotes myself somewhere?

I've been putting the quotes on the gcc line for a very long time now and it goes to the right place.



-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net

Re: Spaces in gcc group names

[Robert Pluim]

Dave Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

>> That reminds me of a related issue: when I gcc to "nnimap+mymail:Sent
>> Items", the copy ends up in `Sent' on the server. Is this supposed to
>> work? Or do I have to add in some quotes myself somewhere?
>
> I've been putting the quotes on the gcc line for a very long time now
> and it goes to the right place.

I just tried 

gcc:"nnimap+mymail:Sent Items"

and it worked as expected. Lars, is this the expected form? Or should it
work without the quotes?

Thanks

Robert

Re: Spaces in gcc group names

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> gcc:"nnimap+mymail:Sent Items"
>
> and it worked as expected. Lars, is this the expected form? Or should it
> work without the quotes?

It should only work with the quotes, I think.

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