[Alpine-info] Expunge with Lavabit IMAP

[Josh Rickmar]

Hi,

I previously sent a support request to Lavabit about how the Alpine
expunge command (X) does not work with their IMAP server.  In their
response, they said that the expunge command was being executed, but that
Alpine wasn't receiving a status update about the new message list,
instead giving an error of "0 EXISTS" (if all messages were removed).

I ran the IMAP telemetry recorder, and this is the output that I received
after expunging the first two out of 11 messages in my INBOX, leaving nine
left:

IMAP telemetry recorder started at Mon Dec 29 18:14:44 2008
0000000f NOOP
0000000f OK Completed.
00000010 NOOP
00000010 OK Completed.
00000011 EXPUNGE
* 1 Expunged.
* 1 Expunged.
* 9 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
00000011 OK Expunge complete.


However, in Alpine, I get the error:

[{lavabit.com:993/imap/notls/ssl/novalidate-cert/user="joshua_rickmar"}inbox

: Unknown message data: 9 EXISTS]



...and the message list is not updated.  The two marked messages are still
marked for deletion in Alpine.  However, if I open a new IMAP client
(including webmail), the messages are gone.  The only way to remove these
messages from the message list is to close Alpine and restart it.

My question is: why is this happening, and is there a workaround to solve
this problem?

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