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Re: imap idle for too long



On 02/03/06 13:54 +0100, Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2006-02-22 at 20:10 +0100, daniel.marti@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> And on the topic of idle too long, I should have replied long before
> now, since nobody else has.  Sorry.
Don't worry. I've downgraded to the previous version (1.5.9i) in
Debian/testing, and mutt now works perfectly.

> mutt is waiting on your IMAP server returning the results to a previous
> command; the IMAP server seems to be waiting for mutt to send it data.
> It looks as though the IMAP server is rather broken.

> Mutt sends three commands at once, to find out basic information about
> the INBOX, see if there are any postponed messages and to start using
> the INBOX; the Oracle server only ever responds to the first of the
> three commands:
> 
> Ask your mail-server vendor if there's a known problem with pipelined
> commands?
Thanks a lot for your answer. I'll try to find out.
In any case, this is not the first problem I've had using the Oracle
IMAP server. 

All the best,

dani