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 Most probably your message list was out of date and the message has been 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 > -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list