Package: fetchmail Version: 6.2.5-12sarge4 Severity: normal if you have public imap folders which the server marks READ-ONLY, then fetchmail will always abort after the SELECT stage with the message "mailbox selection failed".
the code in question is in imap.c, line 134++, and the reason for its existence is to avoid looping permanently if the server does not allow us to delete an email. this behaviour is broken, as not being able to delete emails from the server is fine if the user tells fetchmail to keep messages. there is no technical reason for fetchmail to assume server failure on a read-only select result if -k is given. an example conversation: fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 SELECT "Public Folders/NoticeBoard/All_Staff_Announcements" fetchmail: IMAP< * 38 EXISTS fetchmail: IMAP< * 38 RECENT fetchmail: IMAP< * FLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft $MDNSent) fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Draft $MDNSent)] Permanent flags fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [UNSEEN 1] Is the first unseen message fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1051] UIDVALIDITY value fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK [READ-ONLY] SELECT completed. fetchmail: mailbox selection failed fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 LOGOUT az -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (980, 'testing'), (970, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.14 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_AT (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages fetchmail depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii base-files 3.1.2 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3sarge1 SSL shared libraries -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
