From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-09-20T09:07:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Is net/imap completed?

On Sep 14, 2008, at 21:53 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

> I wanted to use ruby to receive my office mail. Well I could not.  
> Because net/imap reported "unexpected token: RPAR".

Since you didn't give the full output of your program, I'm guessing  
that your IMAP server's response has a "(" character in the wrong spot.

> I checked out on google, and I found out that many people had this  
> problem, and it is because of
> net/imap.

If you can provide your code and debugging output from a session with  
the server that shows this issue maybe somebody can fix it.  Even  
better would be a login to the server set up to show this problem.

> So net/imap is useless to me.

Without a reliable way to reproduce this problem nobody can help you  
fix it.

> As a well developed language's library, could someone tell that if  
> net/imap can be used seriously?

I use net/imap 24 times a day on mailboxes that combined total around  
10,000 messages with the IMAPCleanse gem.  I've never had any  
problems.  So far I know my tool has been used against dovecot and UW- 
IMAP without problem.

I consider automatic processing of my email serious business and net/ 
imap has not failed me yet.