Imap synchronisation failure with READ-ONLY status

[David Soulayrol]

2010/8/16 Arnaud Giersch <arnaud.giersch at free.fr>:
> I came across the same problem when I tried to used offlineimap a while
> ago.  AFAICT, it is a bug in the server used by free.fr.  A minimal
> sequence of imap commands showing the problem seems to be:
>
> Q1 LOGIN login "password"
> Q2 SELECT INBOX
> Q3 EXAMINE INBOX
> Q4 SELECT INBOX
> Q5 FETCH 1:1 (FLAGS UID)
> Q6 UID STORE 22161 +FLAGS (\Seen)
>
> Offlineimap is not the only affected tool.  Gnus is another example.  A
> possible workaround is to insert an UNSELECT command between the EXAMINE
> at Q3 and the SELECT at Q4.

Thanks for the details. They confirm what I feared, so I moved my mail
on another server, and I don't use this one directly any more. For the
record, imapfilter seems not to be disturbed by this problem, so I can
systematically move all new mails on Free.fr to my new hosting with
it.


-- 
David