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Jens Gorm Rye-Andersen <jens@abk.auc.dk> writes:

> Hi
>
> I am new to gnus, so this may be a simple problem, but I have
> been unable to find a solution in the manual or by searching google :(
>
> I read my mail from 3 imap servers. Two of these servers work fine, but
> whenever gnus try to open the last server I get the following error
> message:
>
> "error in process filter: Internal error, tag 18 status BAD code nil
> text STATUS Too few args (empty list)"
>
> I can still access the INBOX on this server and read my mail, but every
> time I press "q" to exit to the group buffer gnus hangs with the
> message "Settings marks in INBOX...". From this point I can only cancel
> by pressing C-g and switch to another buffer with C-b.  
>
> I used mozilla-mail before converting to gnus, and mozilla had no
> problem with this IMAP account. The MTA on the server is Postfix and the
> imap daemon is mailutils-imap4d.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

I recall seeing this too, it was a bug in mailutils if I recall
correctly.  Try (setq imap-log t) and look in *imap-log* and search
for STATUS last in the buffer.  Most probably, it violate the
protocol.  Try sending a bug report about it, or update to a later
version.