Re: Exchange 2007 Issues When Copying Between Folders

[Simon Josefsson]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> Jake Colman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Simon,
>>
>> Can you suggest something better to fix this problem?  I'm sure that I'm
>> not the only user who will want to use Gnus with Exchange 2007.  This
>> fix, incorrect though it may be, does work.  Is there something other
>> IMAP command that will get data in the way Gnus needs to see it?
>
> Does the fix work?  In another post you said it didn't help.
>
> We can introduce a variable nnimap-enable-exchange-bug-workaround that
> toggles the way the code works.  You can set that variable, if it indeed
> solves your problem, and others can leave it at its disabled default
> value.

Here is what I propose, if 1:* really solves the problem.  Please test
it, apply the patch and customize nnimap-enable-minmax-bug-workaround to
a non-nil value.

/Simon

--- nnimap.el   01 Apr 2008 16:03:24 +0200      7.44
+++ nnimap.el   01 Apr 2008 16:27:27 +0200      
@@ -219,6 +219,19 @@
 
 ;; Performance / bug workaround variables
 
+(defcustom nnimap-enable-minmax-bug-workaround nil
+  "Send UID FETCH UID commands as 1:* instead of 1,*.
+Enabling this appears to be required for some servers (e.g.,
+Exchange) which otherwise would trigger a response 'BAD The
+specified message set is invalid.'.
+Note that enabling this work around may cause significant
+performance penalties if you have large mailboxes.  It makes the
+code transfer one line of data for each message in a
+mailbox (i.e., O(n)) compared to transfering only two
+lines (i.e., O(1))."
+  :type 'boolean
+  :group 'nnimap)
+
 (defcustom nnimap-close-asynchronous t
   "Close mailboxes asynchronously in `nnimap-close-group'.
 This means that errors caught by nnimap when closing the mailbox will
@@ -555,7 +568,8 @@
              (imap-mailbox-select group examine))
       (let (minuid maxuid)
        (when (> (imap-mailbox-get 'exists) 0)
-         (imap-fetch "1,*" "UID" nil 'nouidfetch)
+         (imap-fetch (if nnimap-enable-minmax-bug-workaround "1:*" "1,*")
+                     "UID" nil 'nouidfetch)
          (imap-message-map (lambda (uid Uid)
                              (setq minuid (if minuid (min minuid uid) uid)
                                    maxuid (if maxuid (max maxuid uid) uid)))