Re: undead articles (Re: nnimap 0.126 released)

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu> writes:

> I noticed that some deleted articles are reappearing when I re-enter a
> group, like this:
> 
>         in folder A I move article "On Fish" to folder B
>         I exit folder A's summary
> 	Sure enough, "On Fish" is in folder B.
>         I enter folder A again, and there is "On Fish", marked as old
>         I try to read "On Fish", and an error says that the article
>                 has moved or expired.
> 
> Maybe this is caused by the new NOV code?  

Yes. NOV lines are cached indefinitely even when the article has been
removed from the server.

I kind of like that, but 0.127 will make this behaviour configurable
and will default to not include NOV lines for non-existant articles.

You can disable caching with

(setq nnimap-nov-is-evil t)

now if you want a "correct" summary buffer.