I am using dovecot 0.99.13 and Evolution 2.0.2 on Fedora Core 3. Recently, Ximian stopped being able to access my local INBOX via IMAP, failing with the following error:

Error while Opening folder imap://malsyned@localhost/INBOX.

Incomplete server response: no information provided for message 1.

I got a transcript of the conversation between Evolution and dovecot. The relavent section follows:

========================== [>>] Reading from client A00015 SELECT INBOX

[<<] Reading from server * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)

* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)]

Flags permitted.

* 7668 EXISTS

* 0 RECENT

* OK [UNSEEN 7660] First unseen.

* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1101063317] UIDs valid

* OK [UIDNEXT 334080] Predicted next UID

A00015 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.

[>>] Reading from client A00016 UID FETCH 1:* (FLAGS RFC822.SIZE INTERNALDATE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS.NOT (RECEIVED)])

[<<] Reading from server * 2 FETCH (UID 326401 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "09-Apr-2005 13:40:44 -0400" RFC822.SIZE 698 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS.NOT (RECEIVED)] {335}

Date: 09 Apr 2005 13:40:44 -0400

From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON@malsyned.dyndns.org>

Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA

Message-ID: <1113068444@malsyned.dyndns.org>

X-IMAP: 1113068168 0000078081

Status: RO

X-IMAPbase: 1101063317 334079

X-UID: 326401

Content-Length: 260

X-Keywords: 



)

* 3 FETCH (UID 326402 FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "24-Mar-2003

01:45:45 -0500" RFC822.SIZE 1794 BODY[HEADER.FIELDS.NOT (RECEIVED)] {680}

Return-Path: <mindless@cif.rochester.edu>

X-Original-To: malsyned@localhost

Delivered-To: malsyned@localhost.cif.rochester.edu

Delivered-To: malsyned@cif.rochester.edu

Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:36:25 -0400

Subject: Re: I can't login

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481)

From: Michael Maskalans <mindless@cif.rochester.edu>

To: <problem@cif.rochester.edu>

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

In-Reply-To: <003501c1e6f0$d4859bb0$ef441842@yi0b4plk53mjqz>

Message-Id: <71B00250-539A-11D6-A72E-00039303ECDC@cif.rochester.edu>

X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481)

Content-Length: 301

Status: RO

X-UID: 326402



)

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It looks like dovecot really isn't sending any information for message #1, starting right off at message #2. The headers it gives for message #2 are the same as the first message in my mailspool, and the headers for message #3 are those of the second message in my mailspool. It goes on from there.

This doesn't happen to other folders I try to access via IMAP, only my INBOX.

Since this only seems to affect Evolution and not pine, I don't know whether this is technically a bug in dovecot or Evolution. I guess that's up to the RFC, which I haven't read all the way through.

Anybody got an idea about how to fix this or what's causing it?

(Please CC me directly on any replies, I'm not subscribed to this mailing list)

Thanks, --Dennis Lambe, <malsyned@gmail.com>

P.S. Is there a way to get a session transcript out of dovecot? It would save me a fair bit of perl hackery.