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To: Eric Jonas <jonas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: offlineimap@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: More details on courier/offlineimap problem
From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:47:58 -0600

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 03:41:06PM -0500, Eric Jonas wrote:
> At the moment, using courier 1.4.3-2.5 (via debian) and offlineimap
> (either from debian or from the web site, versions 4.0.7 and 4.0.6
> respectively) I get:

Ah ha.  That is extremely useful.  It appears to be saying that
OfflineIMAP is sending a request to delete a lot of messages at once,
and that the IMAP server can't process a line that long.

In your log, you should see something like "deleting x messages".  Do
you see that, and if so, what is the "x" value?

> 
> ...
> 022,16295,16027,16296,16033,34029,16039,39213,16051,16063,16069,16081:16082,16101,16129,16141,16176,10727,16198,31678,31729,31800,6515:6516,6521,10799,6523,16266,16282,16285,1073,10859,32479,6541,16356,5442,32694,5499,32707,32709,16375,32740:32741,32743,32750,32752
> +FLAGS (\Deleted)
> imap:   30:20.68 < * BYE [ALERT] Fatal error: max atom size too small:
> Invalid argument
> imap:   30:20.68        matched r'\* (?P<type>[A-Z-]+)( (?P<data>.*))?' =>
> ('BYE', ' [ALERT] Fatal error: max atom size too small: Invalid argument',
> '[ALERT] Fatal error: max atom size too small: Invalid argument')
> imap:   30:20.68 untagged_responses[BYE] 0 += ["[ALERT] Fatal error: max
> atom size too small: Invalid argument"]
> imap:   30:20.68 BYE response: [ALERT] Fatal error: max atom size too
> small: Invalid argument
> imap:   30:20.68 last 0 IMAP4 interactions:
> ...
> 
> when running with -d imap . This comes shortly after a command to delete a
> around 4000 messages; might this be courier not being able to handle
> really large message commands? (I really don't know much about imap). Has
> anyone else experienced this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
>               ...Eric
> 


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