Re: Problems with IMAP connections to Gmail

--On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 09:06:44 PM +0000 Raza Rizvi <[email protected]> wrote:

> --On 19 November 2012 23:50 +0000 Raza Rizvi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> For about a week now, connections from my Mulberry 4.0.8 running
>> Windows XP machine have been throwing up "A problem occurred while
>> decoding the information sent from the server" message while
>> accessing an IMAP account within Gmail.
>>
>> This occurs for just one of my many mailboxes with Google.
>>
>> An error log (from an ALT F F debug) is attached - the accompanying
>> IMAP log looks fine. The error log looks as though it is tripping
>> up on something but I don't know what.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen any occurrences of this? Bad mail in the mailbox?
>
> Answering my own question (with thanks to the 2 other
> respondents). I used the IMAPlog to see which was the LAST message
> logged. This is the bad messsage.
>
> I 'moved' this in Gmail to a temporary folder and suddenly I can
> collect IMAP mail using Mulberry. Note that my Samsung K9 mail
> client never had an issue with the Gmail inbox folder. So this must
> be a Mulberry bug.
>
> Happy to assist in tracking it down, providing logs etc
>
> Raza

It has been years since I have seen this problem.  It when away when I
stopped trying to connect to Exchange with Mulberry.  As I remember
what was happening was that Mulberry would issue imap requests and
then at the bad message Exchange would just hang up the phone.  It was
not clear what the correct solution was with Exchange and it would not
surprise me if gmail was doing the same.  Note, I have never seen this
problem with any version of Cryus, Zimbra, or PMDF imap servers.

Bill

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Bill MacAllister
Infrastructure Delivery Group, Stanford University