[MlMt] mailbox in a read-only state

[Bill Cole]

On 26 Sep 2018, at 20:50 (-0400), Mark Allman wrote:

> Today I started getting a dialog box in MailMate (latest version)
> that says:
>
>>> MailMate encountered the following error: “Mailbox is in a “read
>>> only” state.”. Mailbox: “Mail/Sent Messages”.
>
> I hit "try later" a number of times, but seemingly writing to the
> "Sent Messages" folder always seems to fail.  I popped over to the
> IMAP server [*] and looked at the "Mail/Sent Messages" file and it
> is writable by me.  What does this mean and how can I change the
> state of this mailbox?  Ideas?

If you open the Activity Viewer window and try again, you can capture a 
verbatim log of the IMAP session, which MAY give more details. Or it may 
not...

In any case, this is almost certainly not a problem that is 
MailMate-dependent. It also is likely to not be a simple matter of 
filesystem permissions on a visible file or directory that you can see 
from a mount elsewhere. Once you have a verbatim log of the IMAP 
exchange (i.e. precisely what the IMAP server is saying to MailMate 
about that mailbox) you will probably need to use that with whoever 
supports your IMAP server.


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