Re: [VM] Cannot view GMail inbox

[Uday Reddy]

Torstein Krause Johansen writes:

> I've still one wee issue, but it's be no means any show stopper for
> me, but perhaps something to iron out before a 8.2.0 final release?:
> 
> - vm-visit-imap-folder => initial login: if I type the wrong password
>   (or just hit ENTER), VM refuses to give me a second go, instead it
>   keeps complaining from my initial mistyping:
> 
>   completion--some: IMAP protocol error: "CRLF expected"

I was able to reproduce something similar by giving an empty password to
gmail.  The session shows:

Starting IMAP over SSL session Mon Aug 08 10:37:33 2011
-- connecting to imap.gmail.com:993
* OK Gimap ready for requests from 92.232.137.113 b21if4769841wef.158
-- connected for folders
VM CAPABILITY
* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN 
X-GM-EXT-1 XYZZY SASL-IR AUTH=XOAUTH
VM OK Thats all she wrote! b21if4769841wef.158
VM LOGIN <parameters omitted>
* BYE [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary System Error
VM NO System Error {XDH} (Failure)
Process IMAP over SSL finished


Two problems here.  

- First of all, gmail seems to have had an internal crash.  How silly is
that?  For an empty password?

- Secondly, it dumped some string "{XDH}", which, in IMAP protocol, is
supposed to mean, I am sending you a stream of data and here is its length.
After that there should be an end of line.  VM's parser rightly flags up a
syntax error.

I will adjust VM so that if the stuff in braces is not a number, we don't
assume that it is a stream.  That should get around this stupid message.  

But, please complain to gmail that their server is misbehaving.

Cheers,
Uday