---- Reported by jim@yorba.org 2012-10-17 13:48:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 5997
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5997
Searchable id: yorba-bug-5997
Original author: Jim Nelson
Original description:

First reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/geary/+bug/1067809

The key line in the debug log is:

    
    
    Unable to fetch status for INBOX: No STATUS response line: "a004 BAD Unknown status field: messages" 
    

This is odd, because MESSAGES is a standard field for the STATUS command.



---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-10-19 15:01:00 -0700 ----

### History

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#1

Updated by Jim Nelson 10 months ago

  * **Category** changed from _engine_ to _server-support_

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#2

Updated by Jim Nelson 9 months ago

  * **Target version** changed from _0.3.0_ to _0.4.0_

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#3

Updated by Jim Nelson 3 months ago

  * **Target version** changed from _0.4.0_ to _0.5.0_

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#4

Updated by Jim Nelson about 1 month ago

A user has supplied me with credentials for mail.ru, so I should be able to
debug this soon.

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#5

Updated by Jim Nelson about 1 month ago

I took a look at this today. The "Unknown status field: messages" error is no
longer a problem (I suspect it was fixed on the server). Now the error message
is this:

    
    
    BAD [PARSE] Syntax error while reading parenthesized list
    

when submitting any request formed something like this:

    
    
    fetch 1 body.peek[header.fields (references)]
    

The problem is the space between "header.fields" and "(references)". If the
space is removed, Geary works just fine with this server. However, without
that space, other servers choke (including Gmail).

It looks to me that the space is required (see
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-9, "section-msgtext") so I think
the mail.ru server is at fault here. I don't know why Thunderbird doesn't
choke as well; looking at their source code, it appears the space is
hardcoded. Perhaps they never issue a "header.fields" for this server.

I need to think more about how to work around this. The best solution is for
the server software to be fixed, but I couldn't begin to read the mail.ru
site, find the bug reporting system, and let the admins know. The server
reports a support-url of http://help.mail.ru/mail-help

The other solution would be for Geary to probe the server, see if this problem
exists, and modify its behavior accordingly. So far we've avoided having to do
that -- it'd be nice not to have to go down that path.



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 23:13 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 5997 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5997

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