[imp] problem with IMAP mailbox expunge (purge deleted)

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Sat Aug 30 17:59:04 UTC 2008


Quoting David Brangaitis <David.Brangaitis at marist.edu>:

> Hello,
> Can anyone advise me on how to correct a problem with the 'purge deleted'
> function in IMP 4.2?    If I delete messages, then click 'purge deleted',
> the messages will no longer be displayed in the inbox, but most of the
> time will return (marked deleted) on the next login.  IMAP sees this as a
> failed expunge because there are apparently multiple selects of the
> Inbox..
>
> -----> C= 1219769640 xxxx CLIENT: sd [7]
> 00000005 EXPUNGE
>
>
> -----> C= 1219769640 xxxx SERVER: sd [10]
> 00000005 NO EXPUNGE failed - INBOX has multiple concurrent selectors.

What IMAP server are you using?  I've never seen that error message  
before and if it means what I think it means, it doesn't make any  
sense - IMAP is designed to allow more than 1 connection to a mailbox  
at any given time.

michael

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