search with keyword fails

[lacivert]

I try this query for search:

query = {keyword: '\\Flagged'}

client.search('INBOX', query, {byUid: true}).then((result) => {
  //... doSomething();
 })

I get this:

[DEBUG][2017-09-13T20:14:17.001Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] S: W5.p OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
[DEBUG][2017-09-13T20:14:17.001Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] C: W4 UID SEARCH KEYWORD "\\Flagged"
[DEBUG][2017-09-13T20:14:17.002Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] Entering state: 4
[DEBUG][2017-09-13T20:14:17.129Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] S: W4 BAD expected atom instead of "end of data"
(node:23260) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 2): Error: expected atom instead of "end of data"

Interestingly I found this online:
lefcha/imapfilter#110

And the answer says, the problem is about double quotation on KEYWORD line:

You are right, the double quotation shouldn't be there. Thank you very much for reporting this!

But I cannot find where to change and try again with single quotes instead of double ones.

Is the approach right? Or the problem is something else?

[andris9]

If you are using standard flags, then you should consider not using the KEYWORD search term but the flag term:

query = {flagged: true}

For every standard flag there's flagname: true and unflagname: true

[lacivert]

@andris9 thank you, but the same problem happens for custom flag as well.

var query = {keyword: '$transferred'};

client.search('INBOX', query, {byUid: true}).then((result) => {
  //... doSomething();
})

The result:

[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.775Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] Connection established, ready to roll!
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.775Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] Searching in INBOX ...
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.777Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] Opening INBOX ...
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.777Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] C: W5.p SELECT "INBOX"
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.867Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] S: * 3 EXISTS
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.867Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] S: * 0 RECENT
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.868Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] S: * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.868Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] S: * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen "\\*")] Unlimited
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.869Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] S: * OK [UNSEEN 1] Message 1 is first unseen
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.869Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] S: * OK [UIDNEXT 4] Predicted next UID
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.869Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] S: * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1489584140] UIDs valid
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.870Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] S: W5.p OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.870Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] C: W4 UID SEARCH KEYWORD "$transferred"
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.871Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] Entering state: 4
[DEBUG][2017-09-14T13:05:45.936Z][1][[email protected]][imap.mail.com] S: W4 BAD expected atom instead of "end of data"
(node:23832) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 1): Error: expected atom instead of "end of data"
(node:23832) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

[lacivert]

I tried with a keyword non-dollar sign on start as well: 'transferred', no luck

[andris9]

I did some changes with the SEARCH builder, could you try the search-keyword-atom branch?