problem with movemail, uidl and maildir as destination

[Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz]

Hi,

I'm using movemail 3.11 (latest in debian unstable) and trying to fetch
mail from imap and delivering it to a local maildir.  As long as I don't
use --uidl, things work fine, but if i invoke something like:

   movemail --uidl --keep-messages imaps://mail.sever maildir:///home/user/mbox

the answer is always (i've tried various combinations, and also mboxes):

  movemail: mailbox `maildir:///home/jao/mbox': cannot get UIDLs: Requested 
item not found

and no mail is downloaded.

(The imap server is not gmail, btw, but a provider that, i /think/, is
using dovecot in their servers).

Is that because --uidl is not supported for maildir destinations?

Thanks for mailutils, and kudos: it's truly amazing the amount of
functionality it covers.

Cheers,
jao
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