Joe Klemmer wrote:
Hello all,
First off, please let me apologize for cross posting this in both thefedora and centos lists.
I have just run into a problem with imap that's becoming a real issue.About two or three days ago some of the mail folders became unusable/unreadable. For instance, my inbox shows 41 unread messages when I access it through pine on the server. But if I imap into it from evolution it shows only one unread message. I tried thunderbird and kmail as well as squirrelmail and these gave some variation of this kind of error message:
The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid messageset: -2147483648:*.
Did you try grep to find such a message? I'd try to find one, then inspect it. OTOH...
[summer@ns ~]$ echo '2^31'| bc 2147483648 [summer@ns ~]$ That does seem to be a significant number you have there ....
maybe it's time to swot up on the imap protocol and do a little practice with telnet. Or netcat.
tcpdump -A may be illuminating too.
--------------------------- OR ------------------------------------------
The server couldn't find the message you requested.
Most probably your message list was out of date and the message has been moved away or deleted (perhaps by another program accessing the same mailbox).
I tried rebuilding the imap directories under each app as well asmoving/renaming the .imap dir under $HOME/mail but to no avail.
The pertinent info is -
Server
CentOS 4.4 dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4 squirrelmail-1.4.8-4.el4.centos sendmail-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5 pine-4.64-1.2.el4.rf
Client
FC5 evolution-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.sam.1 thunderbird-1.5.0.10-1.fc5 kmail 1.9.5 (from KDE: 3.5.5-0.2.fc5 Fedora-Core)
If there is any more info needed let me know and I'll post it. Please try and reply directly to me. I will post a summery of whatwas wrong and how it got fixed (if it does get fixed).
Thank you for any and all help, Joe