Hi Jerry, On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 15:12 -0500, Jerry Malcolm wrote: > Ok, I need an IMAP expert.... Below is a very brief trace of the > communications between iPhone mail and JAMES (3.4). I completely > deleted an account on my iPhone, then recreated it while in airplane > mode to make sure I didn't miss any communications in my trace. I > started the trace, exited airplane mode and let the iPhone do an > initial > sync with the account. The inbox folder in this account has over > 1000 > emails going back to early 2019. > > I'm not an expert in IMAP. But it appears that the iPhone mail app > requests all of the emails 1:* (see line 812), but JAMES returns a > single id plus two ranges (line 813). But the total count JAMES > reports > is nowhere near the full 1000. Subsequently (line 822), iPhone > requests > the emails JAMES told it about in line 813. From what I can tell, > the > problem is in line 813. JAMES did not report all of the actual mail > that is in the INBOX, which is exactly what I'm seeing on the > phone. > Shouldn't JAMES return all 1000+ email ids that exist in INBOX? Or > am I > reading the IMAP trace incorrectly?
You are right, if there's 1000+ messages, it should be returned by these calls. > > Note that the only emails JAMES reports came in AFTER I migrated to > the > new server and to the James 3.4 from v3b5. It appears that there is > something different about pre-existing emails in the mailbox folder > that > is causing JAMES not to recognize them. But this problem ONLY exists > on > the iPhone mail app. Thunderbird gets all of the mail for the > inbox. > So is iPhone must be sending a slightly different request command > syntax > than other clients do (??) Just speculating.... > The best thing to do is to get a trace from Thunderbird for the same scenario. My best guess is that one client trigger a search whereas the other is just triggering a full-scan. Are you using JPA? With with indexing backend? -- Matthieu Baechler --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org
