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Re: IMAP warning: "Mailbox was externally modified. Flags may be wrong" after IMAP server upgrade



On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:05:18AM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote:
> Which version of Mutt are you using?

joost@darkstar:~ $ mutt -v
Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

System: Linux 2.6.29.6-smp (i686)
ncurses: ncurses 5.7.20081102 (compiled with 5.7)
libidn: 1.5 (compiled with 1.5)
hcache backend: GDBM version 1.8.3. 10/15/2002 (built Feb 15 2007 17:04:52)
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
+DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL  -USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  -DL_STANDALONE  +USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK   
-USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  +USE_SMTP  
+USE_SSL_OPENSSL  -USE_SSL_GNUTLS  +USE_SASL  -USE_GSS  +HAVE_GETADDRINFO  
+HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX  
+HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET  
+HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM  
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP  +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME  -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME  
-EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT  
+ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET  
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR  
+HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  +HAVE_LIBIDN  +HAVE_GETSID  +USE_HCACHE  
ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc/mutt"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER
To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>.
To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/.


> The next step is to compile Mutt with --enable-debug if you have not
> already done so.  Then run "mutt -d 5" and look at what the IMAP
> server is reporting when you try to change folder and trigger the
> error.  The log file will be in ~/.muttdebug0.

Since I have no idea where to look, I posted the output here:

http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~jkremer/muttdebug.txt

The warning appears twice in the output, searching for "externally modified"
finds it.

Thanks,

Joost


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Dr. Joost Kremers
Georg-August-UniversitÃt
Seminar fÃr Deutsche Philologie
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