You have been subscribed to a public bug: The version of curl included in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has a bug that causes the imap sub-command/scheme to return Error 78 File not found when it should return the contents of the email.
This is documented in the Bug Report on GitHub as: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4479 The version supplied in Ubuntu 19.10, and future 20.04 LTS will be the fixed version. Ubuntu 18.04 Version: $ curl -V curl 7.58.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3 Release-Date: 2018-01-24 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: AsynchDNS IDN IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz TLS-SRP HTTP2 UnixSockets HTTPS-proxy PSL Command: $ curl --insecure --url "imaps://email.example.co.nz/Spam;UID=33" -n curl: (78) Remote file not found Ubuntu 19.10 Version: $ curl -V curl 7.65.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.65.3 OpenSSL/1.1.1c zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) libssh/0.9.0/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.39.2 librtmp/2.3 Release-Date: 2019-07-19 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: AsynchDNS GSS-API HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM NTLM_WB PSL SPNEGO SSL TLS-SRP UnixSockets Command: $ curl --insecure --url "imaps://email.example.co.nz/Spam;UID=33" -n Return-Path: <bounce_jmldcnc_o-xxx.xxx=email.co...@emsend.com> Received: from email.example.co.nz ([unix socket]) by email (Cyrus x.xx.xx. with LMTPA; Tue, 28 Jan 2020 22:05:56 +1300 X-Sieve: CMU Sieve x.x 8x ---- Snip ---- x8 Also the version supplied with OSX works correctly. % curl -V curl 7.64.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.0) libcurl/7.64.1 (SecureTransport) LibreSSL/2.8.3 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.39.2 Release-Date: 2019-03-27 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: AsynchDNS GSS-API HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz MultiSSL NTLM NTLM_WB SPNEGO SSL UnixSockets Running curl with -v returns this for a failed download (after authentication and other house keeping): > A003 SELECT Spam < * 8 EXISTS < * 0 RECENT < * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen) < * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)] Ok < * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1573031905] Ok < * OK [UIDNEXT 41] Ok < * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 89] Ok < * OK [URLMECH INTERNAL] Ok < * OK [ANNOTATIONS 65536] Ok < A003 OK [READ-WRITE] Completed > A004 FETCH 33 BODY[] < A004 NO No matching messages (0.000 sec) > A005 LOGOUT < * BYE LOGOUT received < A005 OK Completed * Closing connection 0 curl: (78) Remote file not found Cheers Jim ** Affects: curl (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- curl imap returns error 78 File not found instead of the email https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1861721 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to curl in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
