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iCloud doesn't automagically refresh, gives IMAP error code when manually refreshing.

#946

So, iCloud doesn't automagically refresh, even though 'Connected' is selected.

When I manually refresh, I get the following message:

MailMate encountered the following error: “Server response: “H8 BAD Command line too large”.”.
Mailbox: “INBOX”.

I then select 'Retry' from the available options.

It does refresh successfully, but having to remember to do this is annoying.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Reported by Roland Dobbins · October 27th, 2014 @ 08:34 PM

State: new
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

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  1. benny
    benny

    Based on the error the server appears to tell MailMate that a command was too long. I'm not sure how that would happen, but you can provide more details like this:

    1. Open the Activity Viewer in MailMate (⌥⌘0).
    2. Trigger the error message.
    3. Use “Help ▸ Send Server Logs” in MailMate.

    Thanks in advance.

    October 28th, 2014 @ 11:18 PM

  2. Roland Dobbins
    Roland Dobbins

    Logs sent.

    October 29th, 2014 @ 05:25 AM

  3. benny
    benny
    • State changed from new to accepted

    This is what happens:

    05:23:55 Storing flags  
05:23:55 C: H8 UID STORE 82059:82061,82065:82066,82068,82072,82075,82077,82079:82080,82084,82089: ...  
05:23:55    <19762 bytes>  
05:23:55 C: ... 4918:94947,94949:94950,94952,94954:94963,94965:94970,94972:94990 +FLAGS.SILENT (\Seen)  
05:23:56 S: H8 BAD Command line too large  
05:23:56 Error: Server response: “H8 BAD Command line too large”.

    The server does not like a command with 19762 bytes. I think this happened when you had a mailbox with a few distributed messages already marked as seen and then you marked all the other messages as seen. Nothing wrong with that, but it triggered the problem above.

    MailMate could work around this by assuming that “BAD” means “too large”, but it's not straightforward. I'll track progress on that in this ticket.

    I think you can solve your problem for now by marking all the messages as unread. Then wait for the change to synchronize with the server. Then mark them all as read. This should prevent the generation of a very long command.

    October 29th, 2014 @ 02:59 PM

  4. benny
    benny
    • State changed from accepted to fixreleased

    Just for the record, this type of problem was fixed some time ago by enforcing a limit on the length of a command with UIDs generated by MailMate.

    March 9th, 2018 @ 02:03 PM

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