Closed Bug 201794 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Compact Folder results in disconnected error

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: punkadiddle, Assigned: Bienvenu)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: 

Using compact folder function on any IMAP folder results in error message:
"Server imap.gmx.net has disconnected. The server may have gone down or there 
is a network problem."

Delete messages are expunged anyway.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. delete a message
2. messages gets marked deleted
3. compact folder

Actual Results:  
"Server imap.gmx.net has disconnected. The server may have gone down or there 
is a network problem."

Delete messages are expunged anyway.

Expected Results:  
No error message.

same behaviour in release 1.3

IMAP log follows:
6048[241a430]: 1e626f8:imap.gmx.net:S-Entw&APw-rfe:SendData: 5 expunge

6048[241a430]: ReadNextLine [stream=221c000 nb=0 needmore=1]
6048[241a430]: ReadNextLine [stream=221c000 nb=24 needmore=0]
6048[241a430]: 1e626f8:imap.gmx.net:S-Entw&APw-rfe:CreateNewLineFromSocket: 5 
OK EXPUNGE completed

6048[241a430]: 1e626f8:imap.gmx.net:S-Entw&APw-rfe:SendData: 6 UID fetch 3:* 
(FLAGS)

6048[241a430]: ReadNextLine [stream=221c000 nb=0 needmore=1]
6048[241a430]: 1e626f8:imap.gmx.net:S-Entw&APw-rfe:OnStopRequest: clearing 
IMAP_CONNECTION_IS_OPEN
6048[241a430]: 1e626f8:imap.gmx.net:S-Entw&APw-rfe:TellThreadToDie: close 
socket connection
6048[241a430]: 1e626f8:imap.gmx.net:S-Entw&APw-rfe:CreateNewLineFromSocket: 
(null)
6048[241a430]: ImapThreadMainLoop leaving [this=1e626f8]
your server is dropping the connection after we send it a valid command. I
believe this is invalid.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
My mail provider GMX has confirmed that the IMAP server software does not comply
to the current RFC (RFC3051 IMAP4rev1).

Mozilla could possibly use a little more goodwill here but the failure is in the
server software.
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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