Re: [Re-alpine-bugs] Junk In Start Of Group

[Andraž 'r. L. <ru...@co...>]

:2012-01-06T19:26:Jackie M. Young:

> Hi, I'm a new subscriber, and Mike Miller on the Alpine-info list 
> suggested I post a bug here that someone might be able to fix.

Welcome. Atleast some of us also follow there ;)

> As a "lay" (but long-time) Pine/Alpine user, I've been having probs since 
> my ISP went to a GMail/IMAP interface when Alpine starts up and I get a 
> string "Junk in start of group", and then the beginning of what appears to 
> be a bad sender name??
> 
> The exact phrase I get, followed by the start of a seemingly "bad" 
> header, is: 
> [{imap.lava.net:143/imap/tls/novalidate-cert/user="jyoung"}inbox : Junk 
> in start of group: pn=<Man...@bm...> al=]
> 
> This is after I've already entered "pine" and I've gone through a 2nd 
> login, so it's right before Alpine finally starts up.
> 
> However, Damion on the Alpine-info list doesn't think the prob is with the 
> sender name, but with the GMail/IMAP interface (I'm using the only IMAP 
> "lab" available through GMail).

Hmm I didn't need to enable a lab for IMAP. But I did only start using
it at work this week, but haven't noticed any of the issues people
commonly reported about it.

> And Dan (no last name given) (according to Mike Miller) wrote that the 
> phrase "Junk in start of group" appears in the alpine-2.00 source code, at 
> line 4713 of imap/src/c-client/imap4r1.c
> 
> Any ideas on how I can get rid of this starting "Junk in start of group"
> string?  It doesn't prevent me from using Alpine, but does 
> consistently delay the start-up and of course is rather irritating.....;/

Have you tried running a more recent alpine? re-alpine-2.02 is the
latest. If that changes anything. Also have you tried upgrading your
gmail to their "new look" that has enable IMAP under forwarding and pop
access tab in settings.

Maybe something changed there recently?

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