[imp] IMP and readonly mailboxes

[Jochen Roderburg]

It came to our attention recently, that the IMP system has some problems, when a
mailbox is offered in read-only status by the IMAP server. IMP seems to
completely ignore this situation which leads to some strange unexpected
behaviour.
Every attempt to change anything is silently ignored, but you get no error
messages, some actions even look temporarily as if they had worked, but in the
end nothing really completes.
Anybody has any insight what is going on there?

Jochen Roderburg
ZAIK/RRZK
University of Cologne
Robert-Koch-Str. 10                 Tel.:   +49-221/478-7024
D-50931 Koeln                       E-Mail: Roderburg at rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE
Germany