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Fetching mails received from search() not working

See original GitHub issue

    const imapFetcher = connection.fetch(notSeenMailsUIDs, {
      bodies: '', // '' means fetch all
      // struct: true,
      // envelope: true,
      // markSeen: true,
    });

[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 16 EXISTS'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= 'IDLE OK IDLE terminated (Success) [THROTTLED]'
[IMAP|Debug]: => 'A6 UID FETCH 196,197,198,199,200,201,202 (X-GM-THRID X-GM-MSGID X-GM-LABELS MODSEQ UID FLAGS INTERNALDATE BODY.PEEK[])'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 9 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167321102384438 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 196 MODSEQ (27086) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:42:56 +0000" FLAGS () BODY[] {2495584}'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 9 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167321102384438 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 196 MODSEQ (27086) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:42:56 +0000" FLAGS () )'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 10 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167398629662374 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 197 MODSEQ (27086) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:44:10 +0000" FLAGS () BODY[] {2514848}'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 10 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167398629662374 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 197 MODSEQ (27086) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:44:10 +0000" FLAGS () )'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 11 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167472144624896 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 198 MODSEQ (27086) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:45:20 +0000" FLAGS () BODY[] {2496287}'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 11 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167472144624896 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 198 MODSEQ (27086) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:45:20 +0000" FLAGS () )'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 12 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167552444550666 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 199 MODSEQ (27086) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:46:37 +0000" FLAGS () BODY[] {2545593}'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 12 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167552444550666 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 199 MODSEQ (27086) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:46:37 +0000" FLAGS () )'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 13 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167627472549490 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 200 MODSEQ (27086) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:47:48 +0000" FLAGS () BODY[] {2542510}'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 13 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167627472549490 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 200 MODSEQ (27086) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:47:48 +0000" FLAGS () )'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 14 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167702987162758 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 201 MODSEQ (27221) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:49:00 +0000" FLAGS () BODY[] {2607961}'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 14 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167702987162758 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 201 MODSEQ (27221) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:49:00 +0000" FLAGS () )'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 15 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167792780889149 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 202 MODSEQ (27272) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:50:26 +0000" FLAGS () BODY[] {2560081}'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 15 FETCH (X-GM-THRID 1709166704339021881 X-GM-MSGID 1709167792780889149 X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important") UID 202 MODSEQ (27272) INTERNALDATE "26-Aug-2021 14:50:26 +0000" FLAGS () )'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= 'A6 OK Success [THROTTLED]'
[IMAP|Debug]: => 'IDLE IDLE'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '+ idling'
[IMAP|Debug]: <= '* 17 EXISTS'

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

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mscdexcommented, Aug 29, 2021

It’s just part of the protocol and there’s no reason not to expose those features.

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mscdexcommented, Aug 26, 2021

The difference is:

Sequence numbers are always numbered from 1 to the number of messages in the mailbox. For example, that means when you delete a message with sequence number 5, the message with sequence number 6 gets shifted down and now has sequence number 5, etc.
UIDs are numbers that uniquely identify messages in the mailbox as long as the mailbox’s uidvalidity value hasn’t changed. That means when you delete by UID, the UIDs of other messages won’t change (again, until if/when the mailbox’s uidvalidity changes).