Bug#830889: wmbiff: Outlook office365 IMAP servers expect EXAMINE before STATUS, or UNSEEN is always reported as 0

[Doug Torrance]

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Thanks for the report!

CC'ing this to the Window Maker dev list.

On 07/12/2016 01:34 PM, Nye Liu wrote:
> Package: wmbiff
> Version: 0.4.28-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream patch
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Outlook Office365 IMAP servers now expect a client to issue at least one
> EXAMINE before STATUS, or UNSEEN is always zero:
>
> "unsub" folder has two messages, one unseen.
>
> Broken:
>
> 56:04.84 > CJFK1 LOGIN "nyet at xxx" "xxx"
> 56:21.99 < CJFK1 OK LOGIN completed.
> 56:21.99 > CJFK2 STATUS unsub (MESSAGES UNSEEN)
> 56:22.20 < * STATUS unsub (MESSAGES 2 UNSEEN 0)
> 56:22.20 < CJFK2 OK STATUS completed.
>
> Works:
>
> 56:46.04 > BPEB1 LOGIN "nyet at xxx" "xxx"
> 56:51.43 < BPEB1 OK LOGIN completed.
> 56:51.43 > BPEB2 EXAMINE unsub
> 56:51.67 < * 2 EXISTS
> 56:51.67 < * 0 RECENT
> 56:51.67 < * FLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft $MDNSent)
> 56:51.67 < * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Permanent flags
> 56:51.67 < * OK [UNSEEN 2] Is the first unseen message
> 56:51.67 < * OK [UIDVALIDITY 164] UIDVALIDITY value
> 56:51.67 < * OK [UIDNEXT 16] The next unique identifier value
> 56:51.67 < BPEB2 OK [READ-ONLY] EXAMINE completed.
> 56:51.67 > BPEB3 STATUS unsub (MESSAGES UNSEEN)
> 56:51.89 < * STATUS unsub (MESSAGES 2 UNSEEN 1)
> 56:51.89 < BPEB3 OK STATUS completed.
>
> Attached is a patch to always issue EXAMINE before a STATUS.
>
> It doesn't seem like it has to be done before every STATUS, just at least once.
> Is only a proof of concept. I don't presume to know the best way to handle
> optimizing it.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>    APT prefers unstable
>    APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages wmbiff depends on:
> ii  libc6              2.23-1
> ii  libgcrypt20        1.7.0-2
> ii  libgnutls-deb0-28  3.3.18-1
> ii  libx11-6           2:1.6.3-1
> ii  libxext6           2:1.3.3-1
> ii  libxpm4            1:3.5.11-1+b1
> ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
>
> wmbiff recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages wmbiff suggests:
> ii  ruby         1:2.3.0+4
> ii  ssh-askpass  1:1.2.4.1-9
>
> -- no debconf information