UID changes every few seconds

[Nick Edwards]

On 1/20/15, Adam Przybylski <adam.przybylski89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use Gmail-style conversation view, as described in
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual#Examples
> From a client based on Roundcube Framework I'm fetching message list from
> "virtual/INBOX" folder and that works fine to some degree, but the problem
> is that every few seconds or so (probably when new message is delivered or
> bounced on the mail server) UID of those messages changes. When I'm trying
> to display the details of given message (fetch body by UID), I'm getting an
> error because message with given UID do not exist on the server. When I
> only refresh the list (fetch messages one more time) and compare UIDs of
> the same messages between fetches, there are completely different numbers -
> growing every fetch.
> When I switch from virtual folder to real INBOX everything works fine, UID
> stays unchanged over time. Is this the intended behavior for virtual
> folders or some kind of bug? Or am I doing something wrong?
>
> I'm using Dovecot 2.1.7 on Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy). The output of
> dovecot -n is attached.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Adam
>

2.1.7 is an antique
Try it with current set 2.2.15..
I'd try it for you but I'm in Australia for a few weeks and have no
backend access to our network from here.