Re: Error in retrieval

* Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> [2018-03-13 17:48:21 -0600]:

> Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > imaplib.error: EXPUNGE command error: BAD ['[CANNOT] EXPUNGE failed -
> > > > Mailbox has read-only access']
> > > 
> > > That's actually pretty clear.  The IMAP server is refusing to let getmail
> > > delete images from the mailbox because the mailbox is read-only.
> > > 
> > > Given that it's Yahoo, it could simply be that Yahoo has screwed something
> > > up.  Otherwise, check that you still have write access to that mailbox.
> > 
> > In answer to Michael's question, no, I only run one instance at a time.
> 
> Are you sure?  Are you using a mutexing mechanism like the getmail FAQ tells
> you?
> 

I manually start getmail for each email acct.
No cron job, no script, nothing.  

> > I don't understand what is trying to be expunged, since there is no command
> > being sent to do that...or am I not understanding what getmail is showing?
> 
> When getmail switches mailboxes, it issues the EXPUNGE command automatically
> if there were messages that were deleted.  The IMAP server is *supposed* to do
> this automatically, but some users reported messages not being deleted because
> their servers were buggy, so getmail does it explicitly.
> 
> getmail has pretty much always done this, though.  If this just recently
> stopped working for you, and you didn't change anything, it's almost certainly
> got to be something Yahoo broke.  Try reporting the problem to Yahoo and see
> what they say?
> 
> Charles
> -- 

Thanks for the info. 
Haven't changed anything. Same configuration file, same manual command as I showed at first. 

If it continues, I'll contact Yahoo. 
Thanks again for all the help.

Mike


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