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RE: IMAP not working reliably on Win32/VS2012

From: Steve Holme <steve_holme_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:34:44 +0100

Hi John,

> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, John Dunn wrote:

> I was able to reproduce this issue using VS2010 both with a static and dll
> libcurl as well so it's not related to VS2012.

That's a relief, to a certain degree, as that's one version of Visual Studio
I'm not using - I compile for VC7.1, VC8, VC9 and VC10 but not VC11.

> I'm attempting to use the IMAP support in libcurl 7.32.0 and it doesn't
> seem very reliable.

I'm not aware of any IMAP specific issues - maybe someone else on the list
can step in if they are aware of any underlying connection timeout / out of
memory issues.

> There seems to be an issue with transfers past a given size.

Is it reliably the same size when you see the problem and what sizes are you
having issues with?

> If my url is imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/INBOX/;UID=1;SECTION=TEXT the
> request seems to be relatively reliable but I do see an occasional
timeout.
> If I attempt to get the entire message without specifying a section with a
> url like imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/INBOX/;UID=1 I will get a
> CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY error. I've reproduced this behavior using the
> 7.32 prebuilt WIN32 binaries downloaded from the curl site.

Sorry but I got a little confused... You mentioned it was a timeout but then
mention an out of memory issue. Are these two separate issues? Also when you
say timeout, what do you mean?

For example: The connection stays alive but your callback doesn't get called
after receiving some data and the curl_easy_perform() doesn't return.

Are you able to reproduce the problem with a imap connection as opposed to a
imaps connection?

Additionally have you tried the curl command line utility to see if the same
thing happens with that?

Kind Regards

Steve
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