Re: [Evolution] SOLVED (probably) Re: "Error while performing operation. Cannot get message with message ID ..."

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2019-08-03 at 20:18 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > The server reported a message as being present, but then can't
> > deliver
> > it. How is this different from an actual server-side error and how is
> > the client supposed to know?
>
> It may be a server-side error. But when the server can't deliver the
> message, because meanwhile some other agent did something to it
> (deleted it, for instance, or moved it somewhere), then it's not. 
>
> I'm afraid that the client can't know. The server would have to
> remember that there was a message with that ID, which has now expired.
> Then it could tell the client "ID expired" instead of "ID invalid".

So your suggestion is to change the IMAP protocol and have all IMAP
servers implement the change. Good luck with that.

poc