imap problems; error accessing inbox and some other folders

[Mike]

I don't know how to solve your specific issues but maybe this will help 
avoid them in the future.  I'm a long time pine user and have basically 
the same client and server configuration as you.  I was having unexplained 
random error messages until I configured pine to use imap.  Here's a 
snippet from my .pinerc file that (I think) is all you need to make pine 
use imap on the local machine.

# Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox
# Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER).
inbox-path={localhost/novalidate-cert}inbox

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Joe Klemmer wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>    First off, please let me apologize for cross posting this in both the
> fedora and centos lists.
>
>    I have just run into a problem with imap that's becoming a real issue.
> About two or three days ago some of the mail folders became
> unusable/unreadable.  For instance, my inbox shows 41 unread messages when
> I access it through pine on the server.  But if I imap into it from
> evolution it shows only one unread message.  I tried thunderbird and kmail
> as well as squirrelmail and these gave some variation of this kind of
> error message:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The current command did not succeed.  The mail server responded: Invalid
> messageset: -2147483648:*.
>
> --------------------------- OR ------------------------------------------
>
> The server couldn't find the message you requested.
>
> Most probably your message list was out of date and the message has been
> moved away or deleted (perhaps by another program accessing the same
> mailbox).
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>    I tried rebuilding the imap directories under each app as well as
> moving/renaming the .imap dir under $HOME/mail but to no avail.
>
> The pertinent info is -
>
> Server
> ======
> CentOS 4.4
> dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4
> squirrelmail-1.4.8-4.el4.centos
> sendmail-8.13.1-3.RHEL4.5
> pine-4.64-1.2.el4.rf
>
> Client
> ======
> FC5
> evolution-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.sam.1
> thunderbird-1.5.0.10-1.fc5
> kmail 1.9.5 (from KDE: 3.5.5-0.2.fc5 Fedora-Core)
>
>    If there is any more info needed let me know and I'll post it.
>
>    Please try and reply directly to me.  I will post a summery of what
> was wrong and how it got fixed (if it does get fixed).
>
> Thank you for any and all help,
> Joe
>
>