[MlMt] IMAP Problem for Account

Eric Sharakan esharakan at mac.com
Thu Dec 7 11:54:45 EST 2023


I remember this issue has come up on this list before.  IIRC, it was 
related to something that changed on the email provider's side that 
confused MM.

You can search the archives here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/mailmate@lists.freron.com/

-Eric

On 7 Dec 2023, at 11:36, Stephan Bösebeck wrote:

> Unfortunately this did not work. I tried also installing an older 
> version (5937) - same issue.
>
> It ended up being so bad, that I could not use Mailmate anymore. So I 
> removed the source...  that caused errors, that Mailmate could not 
> delete some emails.
>
> Then things went sideways. When trying to force delete, MailMate 
> crashed. When keeping them, it also kept the account. So I deleted 
> them via commandline - the whole account that is.
>
> Then, after staring MailMate again, it was downloading everything and 
> it was _then_ fine...
>
> Until I sent an email. I got the UIDVALIDITY-Message more or less 
> directly after sending.
>
> I removed the account in total again, this time it worked... so I try 
> to add it once more...
>
> I will see, if that helps.
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> On 7 Dec 2023, at 17:18, info at techworkspro.com wrote:
>
>> I recently found the same problem you reported on MM r6008 
>> (experimental build). In my case it was an Outlook IMAP account that 
>> was reporting the error
>>
>> What I found was that the password on my account’s SMTP settings 
>> was missing. I checked the Activity monitor first to verify the 
>> problem, then looked at IMAP Settings to confirm the cause. 
>> Re-entering the missing password cleared the issue up.
>>
>> HIH. YMMV, good luck!
>> Henry
>> - -
>> Please excuse the tttapping errors...
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> C/T (954) 253-4125
>> Henry M. Seiden
>> Techworks Pro
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 7, 2023, at 10:12, Stephan Bösebeck <stephan at boesebeck.name> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> i am using the latest test-build for some days now, but I have a 
>>> strange error message since today:
>>>
>>> IMAP Problem for "XXX" account
>>>
>>> The so-called UIDVALIDITY value of the mailbox "Sent" has changed. 
>>> MailMate has to resynchronize the mailbox, that is, purge the local 
>>> cache and refetch the messages of the mailbox.
>>> If this happens often then you should investigate the issue. 
>>> Refetching messages is a very inefficient action.
>>> Note: The option to "Always Resynchronize" only works until MailMate 
>>> is relaunched.
>>> I did that now 3 times and every time it restarts. Can it be related 
>>> to SpamSieve? As this error only happens, if those messages are 
>>> "trained" again...
>>>
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