Re: Error when connecting to slashmail.org

[David Heath <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 10:14 -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:06:18PM +0000, David Heath wrote:
> > I am trying to use offline imap to connect to slashmail.org, and am
> > experiencing the following error. Anything I am doing wrong?
> 
> > ValueError: Error from select: ('NO', ["SELECT failed: Can't
> > open .mailboxlist
> > (file /data/slashmail/home/9/4/2/0/aaa100249/.mailboxlist): not in valid
> > mailbox format"])
> 
> Looks like they're probably running UW-IMAP and that the mail server is
> returning a mailbox that isn't valid.  In any case, you can see that the
> mail server is returning an error.  You might try using the folderfilter
> option to restrict the set of folders processed to only those you know
> you care about.

Thanks, I used the following folderfilter rule, which seems to have done
the trick:

folderfilter = lambda foldername: re.search('^\.',foldername) == None

Dave