Re: how to debug or ignore "BODY is no literal" error

[Alan S. <ala...@po...>]

Hello,

On 2024-08-29 16:39, Oswald Buddenhagen via isync-devel <isy...@li...> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 03:57:39PM +0200, Alan Schmitt wrote:
>>F: >>> 7 UID FETCH 1949470 (BODY.PEEK[])
>>F: * 14550 FETCH (UID 1949470 BODY[] "")
>>IMAP error: malformed FETCH response from ********: BODY is no literal
>>
>>Is there a way to ignore the problematic message and synchronize the
>>other ones?
>>
> no, but you can try locating it using an interactive imap browser, like
> thunderbird (enable the "arrival order" (or similar) column, which
> really shows the uids).
>
> the message in question seems to have zero bytes. if the server is using
> maildir, this might be the result of a badly handled crash. if you have
> file system access to it, you can trivially locate and prune the file.

Thank you for the suggestions.

This Schrödinger message kept disappearing and coming back (now it’s
gone for good). I managed to connect to the imap server directly when it
was there, and I observed that it was completely empty, that I could not
set flags on it (I tried to set the Deleted flag), and that expunging
would make it go away (temporarily).

I also played with some email clients to identify the message, and it
seems it was a leftover from a calendar invitation.

In any case all seems well now.

Best,

Alan