I can confirm that. My IMAP server is Cyrus 2.2 (both of them). I tried removing and adding account in Evolution, tried creating new local account to start with empty Evolution settings. Nothing helped. Thunderbird is just fine. What I was able to get from CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG is that sometimes it gets some error message (See last line), but I am not sure if it's connected to bad SELECT command processing. sending : B00113 SELECT Done received: * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen Junk $Label1 $Label2 $Label3 $Label4 $Label5 NonJunk) received: * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen Junk $Label1 $Label2 $Label3 $Label4 $Label5 NonJunk \*)] received: * 337 EXISTS received: * 0 RECENT received: * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1129058136] received: * OK [UIDNEXT 339] received: B00113 OK [READ-WRITE] Completed sending : B00114 FETCH 335 UID received: * 335 FETCH (UID 336) received: B00114 OK Completed (0.000 sec) sending : B00115 UID FETCH 337:* (FLAGS RFC822.SIZE INTERNALDATE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM TO CC SUBJECT REFERENCES IN-REPLY-TO MESSAGE-ID MIME-VERSION CONTENT-TYPE X-MAILING-LIST X-LOOP LIST-ID LIST-POST MAILING-LIST ORIGINATOR X-LIST SENDER RETURN-PATH X-BEENTHERE )]) received: B00115 BAD Invalid field-name in UID Fetch BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS *** INBOX "SELECT" command runs just fine: Thread b1c03b90 > CamelStore('imap://ondrej%