[Dovecot] Clients and dovecot-uidlist

[Thomas Hummel]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:49:04PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Most clients cache mails based on UIDVALIDITY and UID, so if UIDVALIDITY
> changes, it re-downloads all mails. If just UIDs change, then it's
> handled exactly the same way as if all messages just got expunged and
> added back, so again it'll re-download them.

You mean, one single UID differ between the client's cache and what the server
sends and the whole mailbox is fetched again ?

So UIDVALIDITY is just basically the "instance number" of a mailbox, right ?

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