#3 problem with m$ exchange / large folders

[Laurent Demailly]

problem with m$ exchange / large folders ? :
First of all, thanks for your contribution,
rimap is an excellent idea and seems like a
good implementation !
Now for the "but" part :-) :
I'm trying to use rimap to fetch/backup emails
from an m$ exchange server to local files/mailboxes

It works fine for some [small] folders, but most
I am getting:
$ rimap --debug -s=200 -1 local remote sent
Sent: local - 0, Generating missing msgid
remote - error/busy
$
(-s does not help/make a difference, with or without)

I suspect this could be maybe because those folders
are very big (several thousand messages); or some
m$ related problem ? (I can see the folders fine
with netscape and outlook)

I'm running
Python 2.1.2 (#1, Apr 4 2002, 21:32:14)
[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)]
on linux2
(should I be usinge 2.0 instead ? or 2.2 ?)

and rimap from the head of the anon cvs on sourceforge

Any suggestion on how to solve/debug this problem ?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help/answer
Best Regards
Laurent