[Dovecot] Why is "UIDVALIDITY changed" fatal?

[Chris Wakelin]

I just looked in the logs (sorry, should have done that first) and it's 
been giving errors "mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox 
.../INBOX (xxx > yyy)".

Chris

Chris Wakelin wrote:
> Hmm, now I'm seeing problems with flag updates. It seems dovecot isn't 
> always adding X-Status and X-UID headers (or updating the latter) when a 
> message is read - I seem to have a mixture of "Status: O" or both 
> headers missing. Is this because of mbox_dirty_syncs?
> 
> It didn't used to happen before today's fixes (but did happen before the 
> very latest ones) Symptoms are Thunderbird (or Pine) think they've 
> updated the flags, but when the folder is reopened, it reverts. I've 
> tried deleting the dovecot.index* files.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Chris

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