[Spambayes] sb_imapfilter.py not adding headers / moving messages

[Joe Catina]

After some quick googling I saw this which could confirm your theory:

"Some servers did not make APPENDed messages available immediately. This 
could again be an interoperability problem for disconnected clients trying 
to reconnect and resynchronise. If the clients APPEND new messages to the 
selected mailbox and then expect to be able to retrieve information about 
them immediately after receiving a tagged OK from the APPEND command, they 
may become confused when the new message seems not yet to be there. Clients 
should be careful to wait for an EXISTS response announcing the availability 
of the new message, but this can be annoying when the client must 
periodically send NOOP commands to poll for this event. Happily, most 
servers do provide access to the new message immediately."

(from http://www.imc.org/mc3-final.html)

Sounds like the problem we're having here exactly - I guess the 1 second 
sleep just wasn't long enough to work around this.  I'll try playing around 
with the code, sleeping more, NOOP'ing, perhaps even disconnecting & 
reconnecting the IMAP session to see how to handle this best.  Unfortunately 
I'm not the mail server admin so I'm not sure if there's any settings that 
can be changed to speed up message availability.

Of course, once I get this figured out I'll still have the message parsing 
failure issues ... one step at a time right? :)

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