Thanks Mark, your input here is appreciated. 

This reply in that forum wasn’t helpful, was it
> 
> > Known bug #90 was reported in 2014. However it still occurs in 2019. Does 
> > anybody know how to overcome this situation? 
> 
> Yes: by fixing the code! 
> 
In the thread it talks of pagination (as do you) but doesn’t give an example of 
how to do it. How would we implement this in LC? If it is not giving us the 
correct count how do we know how many pages we will have to allow for and so 
on. 

Regards

Sean Cole
Pi Digital


> On 23 Mar 2020, at 12:11, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2020-03-23 11:39, Pi Digital via use-livecode wrote:
>> No, same thing unfortunately. Even ALL has the issue. According to an
>> old bug report that has sat for an age untouched it is a known issue
>> in the ood curl lib they are using. At the rate they are currently
>> dealing with bugs for fundamental operations we might see a fix in
>> about a year or two (or four). [dig]
> 
> In this case the bug is in CURL - it is 'known bug #90':
> 
> <https://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html#IMAP_SEARCH_ALL_truncated_respon>
> 
> There's a few threads around about it - this is the most recent I could find:
> 
> https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2019-07/0029.html
> 
> The only real suggestion (although it is vague) there is using some for of 
> pagination (as the UIDs should be eternal, rather than related to the 
> position in the mailbox requested).
> 
> I couldn't find any explicit bug in their bug tracker which is still open for 
> this, but its still listed as a known issue so it sounds like there has been 
> no change in it unforunately :(
> 
> Warmest Regards,
> 
> Mark.
> 
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