Re: [Evolution] imap server errors when sending mail.

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 13:01, Dan Winship wrote:
> > I am using imap with a MS Exchange Server to view my mail. I leave the
> > mail on the server.
>
> OK, lots of people use Evolution with Exchange, so the "your IMAP server
> is broken" scenario seems unlikely.
>
> > Occasionally, I get error messages when sending mail.  A pop up window
> > with something  like "an error occured but message was sent ok".
>
> That generally means an error appending to the Sent Items folder.
>
> > (evolution:5696): camel-imap-provider-WARNING **: Unexpected response
> > from IMAP server: Subject: BAD Protocol Error: "Unidentifiable command
> > specified"
>
> That's saying that evolution sent a command with the tag "Subject:" that
> it didn't recognize. Sounds like evo is sending the message body when
> the server is expecting a command.

oh, wow... I missed that. and the NOOP is complaining about a "From:"
command (which of course doesn't exist).

interesting...

> I wonder if perhaps it's failing to notice that the server said "NO"
> rather than "+ continue". Is there any reason why appending the message
> would fail? Do you have quotas turned on on your Exchange server and are
> you near quota?

actually, I bet it got disconnected and then reconnected and it got
out-of-sync. notice that the tag is pretty low (11) which barely gives
it enough commands to capa/login/list/lsub/etc unless he doesn't have
many folders I guess.

> Anyway, showing more of the debug output (back to the APPEND command)
> would help.

yes, this would be useful

Jeff

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