On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Kyle Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, September 22 at 03:10 PM, quoth Manish Katiyar: >> >> Yes,... I can open it in thunderbird.........though looks like thunderbird >> takes very long time to fetch headers and it appears it does it in batches. > > This has been discussed recently on one of the mutt lists. Since Thunderbird > remembers partial downloads, what happens is that it fetches headers until > Gmail says "command failed". Then it restarts; since some messages are > already cached, it starts fetching only the unfetched messages. > > Essentially, Thunderbird's cache behavior happens to work around Gmail's > IMAP bug. > > So, should mutt add a similar cache behavior so that it can work around > Gmail's bad IMAP implementation too? > >> Also I am able to open without header caching ie... once it says "Error >> opening mailbox" I can press "c" and then imap path to gmail and open >> folders. > > Innnteresting. I wonder what's going on there.
Sorry, forgot to mention I tried with a different folder which had around 8K messages, because I didn't have patience to try again downloading 80K messages, but I am sure that will fail again. > >> Can you give me the link to trac where I can open bugs ? > > http://dev.mutt.org > > ~Kyle > -- > It is easier to be critical than to be correct. > -- Benjamin Disraeli > -- Thanks - Manish
