Re: nnimap and sticky cache

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

Hi David,

>>> Old articles that have since been deleted through other clients
>>> still show up in the summary (bad) but sometimes "turn black" (show
>>> up as deleted) when I try to read them (also bad).  The latest
>>> problem is that I've added 'Message-ID to gnus-extra-headers, but
>>> `/-x Message-ID<RET>xxxxx' turns up nothing, even though I have a
>>> message containing xxxxx in its Message-ID header.  I've had this
>>> sort of problem for years!
>>
>> Do you use the agent for you imap server?
>
> Yup.  But even if I turn the agent off I still see this problem.

Hm, that wasn't the case for me.  I guess that's because somewhere
there're still cached references to phantom articles...  Maybe deleting
~/News/agent/nnimap/ helps, although that shouldn't be used with
disabled agent anyway.  Or maybe some entries in ~/.newsrc.eld?

>> This problem (phantom articles, duplicates and such things) also bit
>> me with my agentized imap account whenever I've used the web
>> interface.  Since then I don't use the agent for imap, but instead
>> use a local dovecot imap server that I sync with my imap accounts
>> using offlineIMAP.  This setup has proven to be very nice.  It's very
>> quick since all mail is local and all changes are propagated back and
>> forth by offlineIMAP.
>
> I guess that's where I'm headed next.  Every laptop becomes a server
> in the end... :(

Yes, but at least it has some added value, e.g. access to your mail gets
much faster.  And dovecot is very lightweight and quite easy to
configure.  Feel free to drop me a mail for my sample setup.

Bye,
Tassilo