[CentOS] imap problems; error accessing inbox and some other folders
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Mar 10 21:44:27 UTC 2007
Joe Klemmer wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> First off, please let me apologize for cross posting this in both the
> fedora 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 at ns ~]$ echo '2^31'| bc
2147483648
[summer at 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 Most probably your message list was out of date and the message has been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 as
> moving/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 what
> was wrong and how it got fixed (if it does get fixed).
>
> Thank you for any and all help,
> Joe
>
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Cheers
John
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