[Dovecot] Clients and dovecot-uidlist

[Thomas Hummel]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:30:30AM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> For example if you have mails with  
> UIDs 1, 2, 5 and 10 and you delete dovecot-uidlist and dovecot.index*,  
> Dovecot gives them UIDs 1, 2, 3, 4.

Ok, I get it. 

But the only way I can think of a client can detect that UIDs are not the same
for the same messages is by detecting that UIDVALIDITY has changed. So if only
dovecot-uidlist gets deleted but index (which store UIDVALIDITY) survives, what
will happen in the client ? Will he fetch the wrong data ?

Thanks.

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