Re: UIDVALIDITY check fails

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

Mats Lidell <Mats.Lidell@contactor.se> writes:

> Simon> Does it return different uidval's during the same server
> Simon> connection, or do you only get them if you close the connection
> Simon> and re-open it?
> 
> Huh... I can only describe what I saw. After connecting and getting a
> good looking *Group* buffer I couldn't get any further because when I
> selected an nnnimap group I would get the error immediately. So I'd
> say I got it all the time. After the patch was applied I could read
> the articles again and I haven't seen the problem since.

Ok. Then I assume your groups weren't empty?  If they were empty,
uwash makes up a UIDVALIDITY every time we look at the mailbox. If
nnimap doesn't detect and work around this situation (it should) maybe
we should look into this.

This problem could be a server bug.

> Simon> A modified version of Jim's patch will be in 0.3.28, could you
> Simon> please see if it works?
> 
> Yes. It works. At least I can read articles. ;-)

I guess that's good. :-)

/s