Re: Unable to enter IMAP folder with (apparently) unread mail

From	"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups	gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject	Re: Unable to enter IMAP folder with (apparently) unread mail
Date	2026-06-05 13:42 +0200
Organization	FUB-IT, Freie Universität Berlin
Message-ID	<87bjdpi57r.fsf@zedat.fu-berlin.de> (permalink)
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Gĳs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:

> On  5 June 2026 08:49 Loris Bennett, wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use Gnus to read mail from an Exchange server at work.  Suddenly an old
>> folder has appeared in Gnus with, apparently with over 80 unread messages.
>> However, I cannot open this folder within Gnus.  If I look at this folder,
>> which is from 2018, via Outlook, I see less than 20 messages, all of which
>> have been read.  If I run catch up in Gnus, the folder is show as having no
>> unread messages, but as soon as I check for new news, the same number of
>> unread message appears again.
>>
>> Any ideas what might be happening?
>
> Can you access it from Gnus' *Server* buffer? 
> ^ or gnus-group-enter-server-mode

No.  I can see the folder, but when I try to open it I just get 

  Couldn’t enter <folder name>

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Unable to enter IMAP folder with (apparently) unread mail "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2026-06-05 08:49 +0200
  Re: Unable to enter IMAP folder with (apparently) unread mail Gĳs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> - 2026-06-05 13:13 +0200
    Re: Unable to enter IMAP folder with (apparently) unread mail "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2026-06-05 13:42 +0200

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