From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72807 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Julien Danjou Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Returning to ticks on read-only imap servers Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:57:23 +0200 Message-ID: <87aamnq2ek.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> References: <87eic45u1n.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <8762xdsn0d.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <87zkuozgr5.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87vd5czggz.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87tykwpjfl.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87r5g0mkuk.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286607554 31206 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2010 06:59:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 06:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Dan Christensen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21179@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Oct 09 08:59:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P4TOi-0003oA-BV for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:59:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P4TNn-0002Ft-5i; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:58:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P4TNc-0002FU-6z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:58:04 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P4TNZ-0005gb-Ni for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:58:03 -0500 Original-Received: from prometheus.naquadah.org ([212.85.154.174] helo=mx1.naquadah.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P4TNY-0001aI-00 for ; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:58:01 +0200 Original-Received: by mx1.naquadah.org (Postfix, from userid 8) id 46DE05C0EC; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 08:57:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on prometheus.naquadah.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Original-Received: from keller.adm.naquadah.org (unknown [IPv6:2a01:e35:2e39:e900:222:faff:fe9d:ce44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.naquadah.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3C7705C0B3; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 08:57:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from jd by keller.adm.naquadah.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P4TN1-00086W-5f; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:57:27 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: Dan Christensen , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87r5g0mkuk.fsf@uwo.ca> (Dan Christensen's message of "Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:32:35 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72807 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 08 2010, Dan Christensen wrote: > I'm no expert, but my understanding is that in normal operation, > UIDVALIDITY never changes, even when messages arrive, are deleted, or > flags change. So it can't help solve the problem at hand. That's totally the opposite. A UIDVALIDITY number design a mailbox in a state. If any change occurs, the UIDVALIDITY number changes. That's how you know you need to do a FETCH 1:* to resynchronize your (cached) version of the mailbox. Read section 2.3.1.1 of RFC3501. =2D-=20 Julien Danjou // =E1=90=B0 http://julien.danjou.info --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkywElQACgkQpGK1HsL+5c1dlwCgjGAh6QpB+EeEQ6AgZ9Ogpo98 FusAoN/0g6Nkx+anRI11Fkc9myMIXzqm =JFB8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--