[imapfilter-devel] Error: attempt to index field 'INBOX'

[David DeSimone]

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Alejandro Jakubi <jakubi at df.uba.ar> wrote:
>
> It seems rather a well known issue of Pine, eg:
> 
> http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/   (sect 21)
> 
> http://kb.iu.edu/data/caer.html

Just to be clear here.  It is NOT a problem with PINE.  It is a problem
of your IMAP SERVER.  Any other IMAP client you might choose to use,
would display the same problem (which is that the second client to
connect gets read-only access to the folder).

It probably comes from your mail server using MBOX folders which are
very difficult to update in a concurrent fashion.  The IMAP server is
just exposing an artifact of your mail server's configuration.  But none
of this is determined by you, so you just have to live with it.

Those articles you referenced do not say "Pine has this problem and
here's how you fix it."  They say "If you are using Pine with IMAP you
might see this problem, and here are some ways you can try to mitigate
the problem."

You might think I am being needlessly pedantic here, but I think it is
important, when trying to solve problems, to know exactly where the
problem is.  Otherwise you will keep trying to solve problems in the
wrong place.

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