Question about CYRUS-IMAP and FETCH BODY[]

[Paulino Calderon]

Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
> -- Paulino Calderon <paulino.calderon at gmail.com> is rumored to have 
> mumbled on 19. März 2009 11:40:53 -0600 regarding Re: Question about 
> CYRUS-IMAP and FETCH BODY[]:
>
>>>> As you can see, the connection is being established succesfully but 
>>>> our
>>>> program ( it was running OK for almost 2 years btw ) is sending a:
>>>>
>>>> IMAP<SEQ #> FETCH <MSG #> BODY[1]
>>>
>>> actually that's not true. It's sending a *UID* FETCH, which is
>>> something quite different.
>>>
>>>> And the server is only responding:
>>>> IMAP<SEQ #> Ok Completed (0.000 sec)
>>>
>>> That's quite correct if no message with UID 2 exists ... you've given
>>> no indication that it *does* exist.
>> Umm, well after a:
>> IMAP<SEQ #> SELECT INBOX
>> The server is responding:
>> http://calder0n.com/cyrus-imap-selectinbox-response.png
>
> So? I still see no evidence that a message with *UID* 2 exists. The 
> response only shows that a message with *sequence number* 2 exists! 
> That's why I said that the actual command is quite different from what 
> you claimed it was. This command will give you a response whenever 
> there are at least two messages:
Sorry about that. What command should I send to retrieve the uids of the 
unseen messages?  The output in the image shows the traffic between the 
program it used to work and the server, i didnt send those commands 
manually. So "FETCH <#> BODY[1]" was working before. I assumed that 2 ( 
on the screenshot) was from the unseen response after a "select inbox".

Thanks again.

>
> 10 FETCH 2 BODY[1]
>
> This command won't give you a response even if there are 100,000 
> messages in the mailbox if none of them has UID 2:
>
> 10 UID FETCH 2 BODY[1]
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