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M-x vm-imap-list-folders fails with IMAP error: "server said NO" on Google Mail

Asked by Florian Schmaus

M-x vm-imap-list-folders fails with IMAP error: "server said NO" when issued on a Google Mail IMAP account. It seems that VM doesn't handle the situation when an IMAP folder that contains subfolder does "not exist". From the related IMAP trace:

VM STATUS "[Gmail]/Drafts" (MESSAGES RECENT)
* STATUS "[Gmail]/Drafts" (MESSAGES 2 RECENT 0)
VM OK Success
VM STATUS "[Gmail]/All Mail" (MESSAGES RECENT)
* STATUS "[Gmail]/All Mail" (MESSAGES 11893 RECENT 0)
VM OK Success
VM STATUS "[Gmail]" (MESSAGES RECENT)
VM NO [NONEXISTENT] Invalid folder: [Gmail] (Failure)
VM LOGOUT
* BYE LOGOUT Requested

Notice that the '[Gmail]' folder is not accessible via IMAP e.g. Thunderbird shows the folder in gray. I am using VM 8.2.0b

Any ideas how to fix this?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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Uday Reddy (reddyuday) said : 		#2

This should become a bug report.

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Uday Reddy (reddyuday) said : 		#3

It looks like this bug is fixed in the current trunk. If you are able to download and build from the trunk (see Code section), please try it.

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Florian Schmaus (flowdalic) said : 		#4

That's great, I am definitely willing to try it!

Is there any documentation on best practice regarding on how to run VM from the trunk? Should I uninstalled the VM package first? Or is there an easy configurable way to switch between the elpa and the trunk version?

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Florian Schmaus (flowdalic) said : 		#5

Ahh sorry, I just found out that I am running a VM site installation (i.e. VM is installed in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/vm/). Any suggestions on how to switch to the user local trunk version?

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Uday Reddy (reddyuday) said : 		#6

You can build the trunk in a separate directory. The README file has build
instructions. Just download a tarball and you can take it from there. Some
people say they can't run autoconf. If you can, everything is
straightforward.

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