Re: Error in retrieval

Hi Michael,

just an idea - are you writing with more than one getmail process to the same directory? Locking conflict maybe?

Michael

Am 13. März 2018 20:53:14 MEZ schrieb Michael <[email protected]>:
>Suddenly I am getting this expunge error and don't know why.
>I need an extra set of eyes to point out what I'm doing wrong, since
>this is what I've used for a good long while.
>Thanks!
>
>btw- I use getmail for other addresses and all work fine.
>
> $ getmail -nlv --rcfile yahoo
>getmail version 4.48.0
>Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Charles Cazabon.  Licensed under the GNU GPL
>version 2.
>SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever:[email protected]:993:
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/getmail", line 903, in <module>
>    main()
>  File "/usr/bin/getmail", line 867, in main
>    success = go(configs, options.idle)
>  File "/usr/bin/getmail", line 164, in go
>    retriever.select_mailbox(mailbox)
>File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py",
>line 1400, in select_mailbox
>    self.close_mailbox()
>File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py",
>line 1378, in close_mailbox
>    self.conn.expunge()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/imaplib.py", line 441, in expunge
>    typ, dat = self._simple_command(name)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/imaplib.py", line 1088, in _simple_command
>    return self._command_complete(name, self._command(name, *args))
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/imaplib.py", line 918, in _command_complete
>    raise self.error('%s command error: %s %s' % (name, typ, data))
>imaplib.error: EXPUNGE command error: BAD ['[CANNOT] EXPUNGE failed -
>Mailbox has read-only access']
>
>
> $ cat .getmail/yahoo 
>[options]
>message_log = ~/.getmail/log_yahoo
>
>[retriever]
>type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever
>server =  imap.mail.yahoo.com
>port = 993
>username = xxxxxxxx 
>password = xxxxxxxx
>mailboxes = ("Inbox", "wnop")
>
>[destination]
>type = MDA_external
>path = /usr/bin/procmail
>
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