[MlMt] Ghost mailboxes

[Randall Gellens]

--Randall

On 26 May 2018, at 1:51, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 25 May 2018, at 21:29, Randall Gellens wrote:
>
>> Thanks to Bill's suggestion that the culprit was the subscription 
>> list, since I didn't believe that to be the case, I modified the 
>> accounts on my IMAP server to permit plain text authentication, SSHed 
>> in to the server system, and used telnet to login to the accounts and 
>> poke around.  The ghost mailboxes did exist, and when I tried to 
>> DELETE them, the IMAP server replied with "NO mailbox is in use, or 
>> folder is not empty".  Since I knew the ghost mailboxes were empty 
>> and verified that they were by SELECTing them, I figured they were 
>> busy perhaps due to a bug on the server, so I restarted the server, 
>> relogged in, and this time I could DELETE them.
>>
>> So, sorry to assume it was a bug in MailMate that was the culprit.  
>> However, it might be good if when MM encounters an error deleting a 
>> mailbox, it says something (I couldn't see anything in the activity 
>> window, and there was no error reported in the UI).
>
> For what it's worth I tried putting your example mailboxes into my own 
> mailboxes list for one of my accounts and this cleared up when 
> synchronizing the account. In other words, the problem was very likely 
> related to the unexpected NO responses from your server. I'll note to 
> test what happens in this case and see if the response can be 
> improved.

Thanks, Benny.  If you like, I can give you an account on my server for 
testing.  It's EIMS, which is outdated, but still works well for a lot 
of people.

--Randall