[Pine-info] Bug? : [Message X UID Y greater than last Z]

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Beartooth,

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Beartooth wrote:


> Several times lately, particularly while looking at a collection folder

> and doing ;PN, I've gotten messages of the form :

>

> [Message X UID Y greater than last Z]

>

> sometimes the message stops Pine, until I slam keys more or less randomly

> till I find a command that gets me out of the situation. Sometimes the

> message keeps changing for a while. Sometimes, perhaps after a little

> changing, it goes away and lets me go on from where I left off.

>

> I have no idea whether this is even a Pine problem, an IMAP problem (The

> server runs Dovecot); and I'm not really competent to file a bug report,

> alas!

>

> Has anyone else seen it?


I run several Dovecot servers and I have seen this too, sometimes even on 
folders that are archived and not changing. I suspect that it is a bug in 
Dovecot, since I think this is Pine's warning that the IMAP server is not 
following the IMAP standard.

I also don't think it's the only bug in Dovecot: sometimes I get several 
messages combined into one, and when using Evolution against Dovecot 
servers, it would regularly crash Dovecot when appending mail to a server. 
I'm rapidly losing faith in Dovecot.

Cheers, Chris.
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