# Is net/imap completed?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-net-imap-completed/148572>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 15, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-net-imap-completed/148572 "2008-09-15T07:01:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Magicloud\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Magicloud\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Magicloud_M)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-net-imap-completed/148572/1 "2008-09-15T07:01:23Z")

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I wanted to use ruby to receive my office mail. Well I could not.  
Because net/imap reported “unexpected token: RPAR”.  
I checked out on google, and I found out that many people had this  
problem, and it is because of net/imap.  
So net/imap is useless to me.  
As a well developed language’s library, could someone tell that if  
net/imap can be used seriously?  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Magicloud\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Magicloud\_M](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Magicloud_M)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-net-imap-completed/148572/2 "2008-09-20T02:16:06Z")

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On Sep 14, 2008, at 21:53 PM, Magicloud M. 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.