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

[Michael Nietzold]

Perhaps MM could detect this type of error and place the email in a 
“quarantine” state (while generating an info or log file). This way, 
the message is set aside and doesn’t block the upload of other emails.

On 6 Jan 2025, at 20:36, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> 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:
>
> Thanks for the output.
>
>> ```
>> 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.
>> ```
>
> The first part is the Gmail server breaking the connection because it 
> doesn't like the message uploaded. The response is really bad because 
> it has no actionable information (despite the human readable string) 
> and it also forces the email client to re-connect. The natural thing 
> to do for the email client is just to retry. The final line above is 
> MailMate telling us that it's trying to work around the issue (likely 
> because I've encountered it before). This obviously doesn't work. I'm 
> unsure if this is also why MailMate doesn't stop retrying. I'll have 
> to look into that. It would be easier if you can locate the email and 
> then use the Finder to compress it before sending it to me (via Help > 
> Send Feedback). Then I can likely reproduce the issue.
>
> The log includes this line:
>
>     X-Opera-Status: 
> 0500000000000002a348ccf4800004397e08000480000439ac0000000000000005000
>
> You might therefore be able to find the email like this:
>
>     grep -r "X-Opera-Status: 
> 0500000000000002a348ccf4800004397e08000480000439ac0000000000000005000" 
> ~/
>
> You might want a more limited path to search.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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