[MlMt] Imported older emails => one offending mail => continous activity

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

That’s a GMail issue. If the Gmail server doesn’t like the message you’re trying to append, there is nothing MailMate can do about that. What IMAP servers accept is implementation-dependent. It’s possible that the message is actually broken, but that’s not a certainty. If I were you I’d try to remove that particular message in your local mailstore.

On 6 Jan 2025, at 18:34, Robert M. Münch wrote:

> @Benny: I found out that I can get a detailed log in the activity window. And it really looks like I have hit a problem. Here is the log stripped down to the core problem:
>
> ```
> 17:28:17 S: G3 OK Success
> 17:28:17 C: G4 LIST "[Gmail]" ""
> 17:28:17 S: * LIST (\Noselect) "/" "/"
> 17:28:17 S: G4 OK Success
> 17:28:17 C: G5 APPEND "[Gmail]/Archive" () "14-Sep-2008 11:59:45 +0200" {283222}
> 17:28:17 S: + go ahead
> 17:28:17 C: X-Opera-Status: 0500000000000002a348ccf4800004397e08000480000439ac0000000000000005000 ...
> 17:28:17    <283222 bytes>
> 17:28:17 C: ...
>
> 17:28:18 S: * BYE Invalid character in literal
> 17:28:18 Error: Server response: “* BYE Invalid character in literal”.
> 17:28:18 S: <<< terminated reading >>>
> 17:28:18 Warning: IMAP server rejected literal with NUL charater. Working around it by reencoding.
> 17:28:18 Error code: 12
> 17:28:18 Failed action (1006). Reset observed read/write timeouts: 8/8
>
> 17:28:18 Handling reply
> 17:28:18 Running action
> 17:28:18 Handling request
> 17:28:18 Clearing connection to imap.gmail.com
> 17:28:18 Ready to run action (type: 1006, retry count: 0)
> 17:28:18 Adding 1 message(s)
> 17:28:18 Clearing connection to imap.gmail.com
> 17:28:18 Trying to connect to imap.gmail.com on port 993 (CFNetwork) without STARTTLS (required)
> 17:28:18 Resolved hostname (imap.gmail.com).
> 17:28:18 Prepare secure connection...
> 17:28:18 Successful connection.
> 17:28:18 Initiating secure connection...
> 17:28:18  Returned (2)...
> ...
> 17:28:18 S: G2 OK Success
> 17:28:18 C: G3 ID ("name" "MailMate" "version" "r6205" "vendor" "Freron Software" "contact" "mm-imap-id at freron.com")
> 17:28:18 S: * ID ("name" "GImap" "vendor" "Google, Inc." "support-url" "https://support.google.com/mail" "version" "gmail.imap-server_20241216.08_p0" "remote-host" "2a02:1210:82d7:bb00:ac79:9b56:f1a:d363")
> 17:28:18 S: G3 OK Success
> 17:28:18 C: G4 LIST "[Gmail]" ""
> 17:28:18 S: * LIST (\Noselect) "/" "/"
> 17:28:18 S: G4 OK Success
> 17:28:18 C: G5 APPEND "[Gmail]/Archive" () "14-Sep-2008 11:59:45 +0200" {283222}
> 17:28:19 S: + go ahead
> 17:28:19 C: X-Opera-Status: 0500000000000002a348ccf4800004397e08000480000439ac0000000000000005000 ...
> 17:28:19    <283222 bytes>
> 17:28:19 C: ...
>
> 17:28:19 S: * BYE Invalid character in literal
> 17:28:19 Error: Server response: “* BYE Invalid character in literal”.
> 17:28:19 S: <<< terminated reading >>>
> 17:28:19 Warning: IMAP server rejected literal with NUL charater. Working around it by reencoding.
> 17:28:19 Error code: 12
> 17:28:19 Failed action (1006). Reset observed read/write timeouts: 8/8
> ```
>
> This sequence is repeated endlessly...
>
> 05-Jan-2025 -- 14:32 -- Robert M. Münch:
>
>> I imported some older emails via MBXO files. So far, so good. MM handles them and uploads them to Google using the folder I specified.
>>
>> Of course, it takes some time until the imported emails are added, but after 12 hours, there is still some activity, and the activity viewer always shows the same cycle. See: https://screen.studio/share/H4Aj4RUu
>>
>> 1. What does this activity loop tell me? Is it normal?
>>
>> 2. How to fix/get rid of it?
>>
>> 3. How to avoid such a situation in the future?
>>
>>
>> @Benny: An import indicator would help a lot by showing how many emails have been imported and whether they are still being processed. Or at least a notification: All emails imported. MM will now sync the IMAP mailbox.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Robert M. Münch
>
>
> --
>
> Robert M. Münch
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