Re: [Imap-protocol] Yahoo Imap 'Bad Sequence' error

Jeff McKay <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Here is the relevant portion of the log:

<send 38>A123 FETCH 69270 (FLAGS BODY.PEEK[])
<recv 56>A123 BAD [CLIENTBUG] FETCH Bad sequence in the command
<recv 36>* BYE IMAP4rev1 Server logging out

The fetch command is exactly the same as the previous 56, except for the 
message number.

On 3/6/2013 5:21 PM, Hoa V. Dinh wrote:
> Could you show the FETCH command you're sending?
>
> Though, Yahoo IMAP server is known as one of the worst implementation.
>
> -- 
> Hoa V. Dinh
>
> On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Jeff McKay wrote:
>
>> Working with Yahoo's imap server, I have code that just does a bunch of
>> FETCH commands of the
>> inbox, until they are all downloaded. In one case, the inbox has 69000+
>> messages. My code starts
>> at the highest, and works downward. After 45 successful message
>> downloads, Yahoo responds to
>> the fetch command with "BAD [CLIENTBUG] FETCH Bad sequence in the 
>> command".
>>
>> Anybody know what this means? I have had no problem with this code when
>> connected to other
>> imap servers.
>>
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