Hi Michael,
thanks for the reply.
On 22 Sep 2010, at 15:56, Michael Elkins wrote:
>> However, for larger mailboxes, when I attempt to change, mutt only gets as
>> far as saying
>>
>> Fetching message headers... 3320/3391 (97%)
>>
>> which remains unchanged for ~5 minutes before I give up. Curiously, the
>> .muttdebug log looks normal. The last few lines are
>>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:18:35 +0100
>>
>> 4< )
>> parse_parameters: `charset="US-ASCII"; format=flowed; delsp=yes'
>> parse_parameter: `charset' = `US-ASCII'
>> parse_parameter: `format' = `flowed'
>> parse_parameter: `delsp' = `yes'
>> 4< a0011 OK FETCH completed.
>> IMAP queue drained
>
> Can you do a spot check and see if there are missing FETCH respones? You
> should see lines like:
>
> * 1 FETCH ...
> * 2 FETCH ...
> * 3 FETCH ...
>
> We've seen some servers which seem to lie about how many messages there are
> in the EXISTS response, and Mutt is currently incapabable of handing the case
> where it doesn't get all FETCH responses.
palatino:~$ grep 'EXISTS' .muttdebug0
4< * 3709 EXISTS
Handling EXISTS
$ grep 'FETCH' .muttdebug0 | tail
4< * 3700 FETCH (UID 17146 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "23-Sep-2010 09:14:57
+0100" RFC822.SIZE 2612 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM SUBJECT TO CC MESSAGE-ID
REFERENCES CONTENT-TYPE CONTENT-DESCRIPTION IN-REPLY-TO REPLY-TO LINES
LIST-POST X-LABEL)] {404}
4< * 3702 FETCH (UID 17148 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "23-Sep-2010 14:35:54
+0100" RFC822.SIZE 20548 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM SUBJECT TO CC MESSAGE-ID
REFERENCES CONTENT-TYPE CONTENT-DESCRIPTION IN-REPLY-TO REPLY-TO LINES
LIST-POST X-LABEL)] {408}
4< * 3703 FETCH (UID 17149 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "23-Sep-2010 14:38:52
+0100" RFC822.SIZE 16305 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM SUBJECT TO CC MESSAGE-ID
REFERENCES CONTENT-TYPE CONTENT-DESCRIPTION IN-REPLY-TO REPLY-TO LINES
LIST-POST X-LABEL)] {1728}
4< * 3704 FETCH (UID 17150 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "23-Sep-2010 15:12:29
+0100" RFC822.SIZE 1992 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM SUBJECT TO CC MESSAGE-ID
REFERENCES CONTENT-TYPE CONTENT-DESCRIPTION IN-REPLY-TO REPLY-TO LINES
LIST-POST X-LABEL)] {426}
4< * 3705 FETCH (UID 17151 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "23-Sep-2010 15:13:12
+0100" RFC822.SIZE 6034 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM SUBJECT TO CC MESSAGE-ID
REFERENCES CONTENT-TYPE CONTENT-DESCRIPTION IN-REPLY-TO REPLY-TO LINES
LIST-POST X-LABEL)] {526}
4< * 3706 FETCH (UID 17152 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "23-Sep-2010 15:24:37
+0100" RFC822.SIZE 1234 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM SUBJECT TO CC MESSAGE-ID
REFERENCES CONTENT-TYPE CONTENT-DESCRIPTION IN-REPLY-TO REPLY-TO LINES
LIST-POST X-LABEL)] {279}
4< * 3707 FETCH (UID 17153 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "23-Sep-2010 13:43:51
+0100" RFC822.SIZE 2342 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM SUBJECT TO CC MESSAGE-ID
REFERENCES CONTENT-TYPE CONTENT-DESCRIPTION IN-REPLY-TO REPLY-TO LINES
LIST-POST X-LABEL)] {546}
4< * 3708 FETCH (UID 17154 FLAGS (\Seen \Answered) INTERNALDATE "22-Sep-2010
12:48:22 +0100" RFC822.SIZE 6200 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM SUBJECT TO CC
MESSAGE-ID REFERENCES CONTENT-TYPE CONTENT-DESCRIPTION IN-REPLY-TO REPLY-TO
LINES LIST-POST X-LABEL)] {431}
4< * 3709 FETCH (UID 17155 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "20-Sep-2010 17:19:34
+0100" RFC822.SIZE 126689 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM SUBJECT TO CC
MESSAGE-ID REFERENCES CONTENT-TYPE CONTENT-DESCRIPTION IN-REPLY-TO REPLY-TO
LINES LIST-POST X-LABEL)] {451}
4< a0011 OK FETCH completed.
With mutt itself stuck at "Fetching message headers... 3630/3709 (97%)".
Thunderbird sees 3709 messages in this mailbox too. I haven't checked that
every number between 1 and 3709 occurs (let me know if there's a one-liner for
that!). But it does look like mutt sees the last message.
Thoughts?
-- Mike
