Re: [Fetchmail-users] fetchmail expunge error

[Leslie R. <les...@si...>]

On 4/25/2021 2:43 PM, Gerard E. Seibert wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 12:24:06 -0500, Leslie Rhorer stated:
>>      In any case, I can now login using the IMAP protocol, but
>> fetchmail
>> can only download a single message at a time, producing a mail expunge
>> mismatch error (0 actual != 1 expected) and exiting after each
>> message. Eventually, it does manage to get all the messages, but
>> typically only after a very long time, whenever several messages come
>> in over a short time frame.  While not quite critical, this is
>> definitely not good.
>>
>> Is anyone else having this issue with AT&T?  How can I fix it?
> Both YAHOO and AOL exhibit the same problem. Most MUAs simply ignore the
> problem. Fetchmail has taken a more stringent approach.

     Yahoo and AT&T are one and the same, and apparently have been for 
quite a while.  Both the old and the new DNS entries redirect to 
addresses on yahoo.com.   The question is, "How do I get fetchmail to 
ignore or work around the issue?"  Regardless of how obtuse the ISP's 
IMAP server may be, I should be able to download messages without any 
issue.  Downloading one message every N seconds is not an answer.

     I am also getting errors like:

fetchmail: Received BYE response from IMAP server:  IMAP4REV1 SERVER 
LOGGING OUTfetchmail: mailbox selection failed
fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from 
yy...@at...@imap.mail.att.net
fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR)