Cannot generate contact file

[ghost]

vmail-contact.txt was created, it is empty. Vmail cannot access to mailbox.

/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': iconv will be deprecated in the future, use String#encode instead.
Starting vmail 2.5.7
Checking vmail.db version... OK
Setting VMAIL_BROWSER to 'gnome-open'
Using config file: .vmailrc
Using contacts file: vmail-contacts.txt
Logging as user@gmail.com

<struct Net::IMAP::TaggedResponse tag="RUBY0001", name="OK", data=#, raw_data="RUBY0001 OK user@gmail.com user authenticated (Success)\r\n">

Selecting [Gmail]/Sent Mail
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/imap.rb:1141:in get_tagged_response': Unknown Mailbox: [Gmail]/Sent Mail (Failure) (Net::IMAP::NoResponseError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/imap.rb:1195:inblock in send_command'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/monitor.rb:211:in mon_synchronize' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/imap.rb:1177:insend_command'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/imap.rb:437:in block in select' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/monitor.rb:211:inmon_synchronize'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/imap.rb:435:in select' from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/vmail-2.5.7/lib/vmail/contacts_extractor.rb:23:inblock in extract'
from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/vmail-2.5.7/lib/vmail/contacts_extractor.rb:13:in open' from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/vmail-2.5.7/lib/vmail/contacts_extractor.rb:19:inextract'
from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/vmail-2.5.7/lib/vmail/options.rb:80:in block (2 levels) in parse' from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/vmail-2.5.7/lib/vmail/options.rb:79:inopen'
from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/vmail-2.5.7/lib/vmail/options.rb:79:in block in parse' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:882:ininitialize'
from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/vmail-2.5.7/lib/vmail/options.rb:22:in new' from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/vmail-2.5.7/lib/vmail/options.rb:22:inparse'
from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/vmail-2.5.7/lib/vmail/options.rb:18:in initialize' from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/vmail-2.5.7/lib/vmail.rb:48:innew'
from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/vmail-2.5.7/lib/vmail.rb:48:in start' from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/vmail-2.5.7/bin/vmail:14:in<top (required)>'
from /usr/local/bin/vmail:23:in load' from /usr/local/bin/vmail:23:in

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Thanks

[danchoi]

It looks like you don't have a "Sent Mail" Gmail folder in the typical location. Can you send me the log trace that shows the mail folders detected when Vmail starts up? It looks like

 Loaded mailboxes: ["INBOX", "Amazon seller's account", "Notes", "[Gmail]/All Mail", "[Gmail]/Drafts", "[Gmail]/Important", "[Gmail]/Sent Mail", "[Gmail]/Spam", "[Gmail]/Starred", "[Gmail]/Trash",

[oddg]

I had the same issue with vmail 2.5.8. It seems that the only loaded mail box when using vmail without any option is "INBOX". So i had a look into the sent mailbox and vmail loaded it. Then i quite vmail and restarted it with the -g option and it worked.

[AFriemann]

Hey there, sorry to roll this up again, but I have problems creating the contact list due to german language gmail. Is there a way to fix this by now? Simply loading it in vmail didn't work.
Loaded mailboxes: ["INBOX", "[Google Mail]/Alle Nachrichten", "[Google Mail]/Entwürfe", "[Google Mail]/Gesendet", "[Google Mail]/Markiert", "[Google Mail]/Papierkorb", "[Google Mail]/Wichtig",
Amazing tool btw! I love it!

[notalex]

This issue has been fixed in version 2.9.0. Some additional configuration will be required as documented in this wiki.

[stefco]

@notalex what was the fix for this in the end? gmail is currently using sent as the default sent folder name, while [Gmail]/Sent Mail is still the default folder. is there a way to manually override this?

[minimul]

@stefco I have a US Gmail account with a sent folder called "Sent Mail" and I was getting this error on a -g run. I set this in .vmailrc and the -g run worked.

mailbox_aliases:
  sent: Sent Mail
username: ....

[stefco]

This worked, thank you!