Re: [Evolution] IMAP issue

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 15:53 -0800, Tom Duffy wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 07:35 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > 
> > I suspect the message has NUL characters in it?
> > 
> > This string is coming from the server, as it doesn't exist anywhere in
> > Evolution, and evolution can handle binary data anyway.  Strictly
> > speaking, imap doesn't allow unencoded NUL characters (0x00) in
> > messages, so its probably the server just being anal about it.
> > 
> > You'll probably have to try to find the offending message and remove
> > it or fix it up.
>
> Turns out the offending message was on a POP server.  It was happening
> when I tried to pop a message off of a server and stick it onto my IMAP
> server (which happens through a filter).  I logged into the web access
> to my pop account, deleted the top message, and evolution was able to
> pop the rest*.
>
> -tduffy
>
> * It happened once again with a different message, so I repeated the
> procedure and it hasn't happened since.  Still, it seems that evolution
> should be more robust in face of this kind of error -- I couldn't get
> any of my other mail off of the POP server until I manually rectified
> the problem.

Well the error is with the server.  I think it is quite reasonable for the code to assume that if one append fails, another wont work either.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "Ride, Work, Sleep. Beer." Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer