MBOX-Line: From mrc+imap at panda.com  Thu Oct 13 19:05:41 2011
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <mrc+imap@panda.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:46 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Outlook Express issue
In-Reply-To: <4E96FA93.9000902@npsl.co.uk>
References: <4E96FA93.9000902@npsl.co.uk>
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1110131902510.9034@hsinghsing.panda.com>

Your IMAP transcript looks reasonable. Lacking any additional evidence,
I'm inclined to say that this is YAOEBWWNBF (Yet Another Outlook Express
Bug Which Will Never Be Fixed).

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Mark Weaver wrote:
> I've had an issue reported against an IMAP server that I've written
> where OE thinks it has a deleted message that's not actually deleted.
> I've got a log file from the client, the relevant bits are:
>
> IMAP: 15:01:29 [tx] domn UID FETCH 1:356478 (UID FLAGS)
> ...
> IMAP: 15:01:35 [rx] * 4504 FETCH (UID 356256 FLAGS ())
> ...
> IMAP: 15:01:42 [tx] h7mh UID STORE 356256 -FLAGS.SILENT (\Deleted)
> IMAP: 15:01:43 [rx] h7mh OK STORE completed
>
> i.e. it's trying to remove a \Deleted flag that isn't set on the
> message, which I guess means that locally it thinks that it's deleted
> and it hasn't picked up the flags from the fetch response.
>
> I can't see anything wrong with the server responses, so it looks to me
> like OE is incapable of synchronising flags properly.  Is this known
> about/something that can be worked around, or have I just got something
> in the output format?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
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