Hi all,
I'm creating an IMAP backup app which basicaly fetches all mails and
dumps them to a Maildir. I'm using UW's c-client as the IMAP interface
API. I've been wrestling with a weird bug for some time now, and since
I can't find a solution I'm turning to this list.
When calling
Turn on debugging telemetry and you will see the IMAP protocol
interactions via mm_dlog(). Is the data being truncated from the server?
Note that mm_dlog() will not show the data in literals, but you will see
the byte counts and that should indicate if you are getting truncated
data.
If the
Thanks Mark.
I wasn't aware of the single buffer for all mail_fetch***() functions,
but I'm converting the results to std::strings directly afterwards so
it doesn't affect the app.
Turning on debugging telemetry showed that the message is transmitted
truncated by the server. This is the Gmail
Found an even easier solution:
Reading the IMAP specification I noticed one can use mail_fetchbody()
with an empty section specifier () to retrieve the whole mail,
including headers. Downloading the message this way makes the Gmail
IMAP server transmit the whole message, untruncated. Now I can
