Re: Problems with IMAP connections to Gmail

Additional data point - it's not only in GMail.

I am running Mulberry 4.0.8 on WinXP and reading IMAP mail from a QMail 
(IIRC) server.  Several times in the past I've had to use Thunderbird to 
open my Inbox and search out and delete "bad" email in order to open said 
Inbox in Mulberry without crashes.  Currently I can't do a "Full Sort" by 
Sender without a crash, which suggests that I'll be needing to go in and do 
this again.

I'm more a user than anything else, so if there's a utility that can save 
me from doing it manually I'd love to know about it - 14,300 messages is a 
lot to look through for one bad header....  ;-)

Thanks,
Whitney


--On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:46 AM +1100 Bernie Maier 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, I have seen this.  I believe it is due to bad mail in the mailbox.
> Certainly when I used the gmail web interface to move the offending
> message(s) to another "folder"[*], then I was able to open the original
> mailbox in Mulberry again.  FWIW, I'm running Mulberry on OS X, so it's
> not a client platform-specific problem.
>
> I don't know if the bad email is due to gmail doing something out of spec
> with attachments (both bad messages I've seen have attachments) or the
> very unlikely case that there is something that Mulberry can't handle.
> Personally, I'm more inclined to blame gmail because other aspects of its
> IMAP capabilities are woeful (e.g. I can't bulk assign multiple messages
> to a label(/folder) because it won't preserve the original order of UIDs
> resulting in messages appearing unordered in Mulberry, combine that with
> not supporting the SORT capability means that you can't work around that
> first issue on the client side).
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Bernie
>
> [*] Gmail doesn't use folders, it applies labels to messages and then
> presents labels as folders to IMAP clients.
>