Re: IMAP missing SEARCH response

[Ian Swainson <ian@qui-oui.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

>> I'm trying to setup Gnus to use my local IMAP server. The logs indicate that the
>> connection etc is successfule, but I can't select the group. I get a "Missing
>> SEARCH response to a SEARCH command" Error.
>
> The server is broken, but latest Oort Gnus should work around the bug,
> please upgrade and try.  Do you know which server this is?

Yup. MDaemon 3.X by Alt-N technologies. On Windows. But in my defence, I am
desperate. Cyrus won't build (for me) on Cygwin. Nor will Courier. Even UW-IMAP
has problems running with authentication (for me, anyhoo). So I tried this. If
anyone can recommend a *proper*, open and free IMAP server on Windows, I'd be
eternally grateful. MDaemon, BTW, isn't free or open, and in 30 days (Trial period) I'll have
to think of something else ;)

> (See http://josefsson.org/nnimap/buggy-imap-servers.html#interchange for
> the details.)
>
>> 4 FETCH 1,* UID
>> * 1 FETCH (UID 1)
>> * 2 FETCH (UID 2)
>> ...
>> <snip>
>> 4 OK FETCH completed
>
> Out of curiosity, why did you <snip>?   Was it because the server
> returned lots of FETCH lines?  Then it is broken in another sense as well
> -- FETCH 1,* should return the lowest AND highest article, not all
> articles in between.

Yes, the server returned a FETCH line for each mail.

Thanks a million for the prompt reply Simon, and thanks also for not berating me
for not looking up the archive properly (I noted soon after I had sent my query
that this very issue had been mentioned very recently... sorry about that)

Cheers,
Ian

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