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Package: courier-imap
Version: 1.6.2-4
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
When using courier imapd with sylpheed-claws strange things happend
and while I investigated the problem i found out that courier imap does
not follow the IMAP RFC correctly. The following log was producted by
sylpheed-claws:
[19:43:43] IMAP4> 274 STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES RECENT UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN)
[19:43:43] IMAP4< * STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES 8 RECENT 0 UIDNEXT 68 UIDVALIDITY
1046790905 UNSEEN 1)
[19:43:43] IMAP4< 274 OK STATUS Completed.
some other commands were executed in between...
[19:43:48] IMAP4> 279 APPEND INBOX (\Seen) {7701}
[19:43:48] IMAP4< + OK
[19:43:48] IMAP4> (sende Datei...)
[19:43:48] IMAP4< 279 OK [APPENDUID 1046790905 68] APPEND Ok.
[19:43:48] IMAP4> 280 STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES RECENT UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN)
[19:43:48] IMAP4< * STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES 8 RECENT 0 UIDNEXT 68 UIDVALIDITY
1046790905 UNSEEN 2)
[19:43:48] IMAP4< 280 OK STATUS Completed.
First a message was added and the imap server reported that the new
message got the UID 68 as expected because the last STATUS command
reported 68 for UIDNEXT. The problem is that the STATUS command after
the APPEND command still reports a UID of 68. But the RFC say:
UIDNEXT The next UID value that will be assigned to a new
message in the mailbox. It is guaranteed that this
----------------
value will not change unless new messages are added
to the mailbox; and that it will change when new
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messages are added even if those new messages are
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subsequently expunged.
Because of the wrong value for UIDNEXT sylpheed thinks the folder was
not changed and behaves incorrectly.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux navi 2.4.20 #9 Fre Nov 29 15:03:37 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages courier-imap depends on:
ii courier-authdaemon 0.40.2-4 Courier Mail Server authentication
ii courier-base 0.40.2-4 Courier Mail Server Base System
ii exim [mail-transport-agent] 3.36-4 An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii libc6 2.3.1-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.6.9-4 client library to control the FAM
ii libgdbmg1 1.7.3-27.1 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
-- debconf information:
courier-imap/moveconfig: true
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--- Begin Message ---
Christoph,
On Monday, July 21, 2025 2:50:44 AM Mountain Standard Time Christoph Hohmann
wrote:
> Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > I have recently taken over maintenance of the courier-imap package. I
> > apologize that nobody responded to your bug report from 2003.
> >
> > Can you confirm if this bug still exists with the current version of
> > courier-
> > imap in Debian (5.2.11+1.4.1-3)?
>
> I have not used courier-imap and sylpheed for a long time. So I cannot
> tell you, if courier-imap is still has this bug nor if sylpheed is still
> affected and can be used to reproduce the problem.
Thank you for your response. I am going to close this bug report with the
assumption that this has been fixed upstream during the past 20 years. But if
anyone is still experiencing this problem, please feel free to reopen the bug
report.
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Soren Stoutner
[email protected]
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