From: Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu>
Subject: Re: nnimap silently ignores invalid mailboxes
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:25:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lmbu9xjs.fsf@fermat.mts.jhu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204110957420.12805-100000@yxa.extundo.com> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:00:31 +0200 (CEST)")
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Nevin Kapur wrote:
[...]
>> I was hoping that there were some way that Gnus could warn me when
>> this situation occurred. When I tried accessing the corrupted INBOX
>> with other IMAP clients (pine and Evolution), I was given clear
>> indication that something was wrong.
>
> Hm, Gnus's imap stuff doesn't care about From at all, it retrieves
> articles using IMAP commands. I guess the server was confused and didn't
> return any messages, but I don't understand why other clients would work
> in that case. Could you delete the F in your spool file and experiment a
> little to see what fails?
936 SELECT "INBOX"
936 NO SELECT failed: Can't open INBOX (file /var/spool/mail/kapur): not in valid mailbox format
I tried that. Here are the relevant lines. So the UW server does
give indication that something is amiss.
> Ah. Maybe the server does report something to the client, but Gnus doesn't
> display it. What does other clients display as error?
Both Evolution and PINE display something close to the second line as
the error message.
--
:: Nevin ::
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-11 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-11 2:48 Nevin Kapur
2002-04-11 8:00 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-04-11 13:25 ` Nevin Kapur [this message]
2002-04-11 13:48 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-04-11 14:25 ` Nevin Kapur
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