[Dovecot] Outlook 2003 and Thunderbird IMAP + gettingnew headers

[Jan van den Berg]

Hi,

I dont do anything with the dovecot-uidlist.

This is part of what the rawlog looks like (with a folder that started
getting new headers):

tbgy SELECT "My Folders.Klanten"
rty3 UID FETCH 1668:* (UID FLAGS RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[HEADER] INTERNALDATE)
9d54 UID FETCH 1:1667 (UID FLAGS)
0ntr UID FETCH 1667 (UID FLAGS BODY.PEEK[] INTERNALDATE)
znim IDLE
DONE
4ogq UID FETCH 1668 (UID FLAGS BODY.PEEK[] INTERNALDATE)
5131 IDLE

How should I interpret this? I see 1668 and 1667?

Cheers,

Jan


-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: dovecot-bounces+jan.vandenberg=isp.solcon.nl at dovecot.org
[mailto:dovecot-bounces+jan.vandenberg=isp.solcon.nl at dovecot.org] Namens
Timo Sirainen
Verzonden: woensdag 10 september 2008 20:45
Aan: Jan van den Berg
CC: 'Dovecot Mailing List'
Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2003 and Thunderbird IMAP + gettingnew
headers

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 10:29 +0200, Jan van den Berg wrote:
> We run 1.1.3 and I use Outlook to connect to my IMAP box and a couple of
> times per day (randomly) when I click certain folders IMAP will start
> retrieving ALL headers for that folder again ('retrieving new headers')!

Typically that means that the mailbox's UIDVALIDITY has changed. Or the
messages get assigned new UIDs for some reason (e.g. Dovecot sees that
they're gone, later sees them again). You could verify these by using
e.g. rawlog (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Rawlog) and seeing if the
UIDVALIDITY value after SELECT command changes and if the returned UIDs
get changed.

Do you do anything on the server with dovecot-uidlist files? Or
dovecot.index* files? Like deleting them once in a while as someone was
doing in a cron job? :)