Hello Tom,
Wednesday, July 12, 2000, you wrote:
One of the IMAP bugs does have this effect. I reported it a couple of
years ago now.
TB's IMAP often hangs, especially on a slower/busier client.
Apparently marking the messages "read" is done before the transfer is
started (likely it's done by the IMAP server when the client tells it
which messages to transfer, I don't know the protocol). Anyway, after
killing the hung connection, you'll only get the messages which
successfully transferred up to that point, and attempting to receive
new mail won't work because the server has now marked all of the
messages read. You have to go back into "dispatch mail on server",
guess which messages you didn't get, mark them unread and start over.
If you have "delete received messages" checked, you're hosed.
Oddly, it isn't possible to cancel a hung connection, the cancel
button in the transfer window has no effect. (I don't think it has any
effect on IMAP connections, only on POP.) You have to close the
transfer window with the top-right X.
Every time I upgrade The Bat! I hope that this bug has been fixed, but
it never has :-( On an account which receives several hundred emails /
day, and which may have several thousand messages on the server, POP
performance really sucks. So I've gotten into the habit of watching
the number of messages transferred very carefully, so I can go into
"dispatch mail on server" on a failure.
>>> We are using your great (!) email client and run a linux-based
>>> cyrus imap-server behind. It is some time that I remarked some
>>> strange things about new mails. At least my account does not show
>>> me all incoming mails.
TP> He said he's using IMAP. As far as I know TB's IMAP implementation is
TP> "buggy as all that" so I would stop at that. If anyone knows any
TP> details about the IMAP bugs (I don't use it so I don't really care),
TP> they might help our friend here, but I'll just post, "yeah, IMAP has
TP> serious problems. They suggest that they will be fixed in v2, which
TP> is likely to ship at some point but likely not before the end of the
TP> year."
Best regards,
Iain mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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