Re: INBOX is not uidvalid

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:

> I tried setting up an imap server, and things seemed to work.
> But now when I select INBOX (in the Group buffer), I get this very
> utterly diagnostic:
>
> 	  nnimap: Group INBOX is not uidvalid.  Continue?
>
> This is Gnus 5.8.5 under xemacs 21.4.4 under Red Hat 7.1.

The error message is disabled in Oort Gnus, patch below.

However, if you use the cache or agent in a group that your IMAP
server decides to re-number (and thus changing UIDVALIDITY), you might
have problems.  Problems such as seeing information for one article in
the summary buffer and a completely different message in the article
buffer.  But this seem to be rare.  Tell us if you experience this, or
any other problem, with the patch.

Index: nnimap.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/nnimap.el,v
retrieving revision 6.7
retrieving revision 6.8
diff -u -r6.7 -r6.8
--- nnimap.el	2001/07/04 17:41:56	6.7
+++ nnimap.el	2001/07/06 17:56:46	6.8
@@ -397,6 +397,8 @@
 	    (if (or (nnimap-verify-uidvalidity
 		     group (or server nnimap-current-server))
 		    (zerop (imap-mailbox-get 'exists group))
+		    t ;; for OGnus to see if ignoring uidvalidity
+		      ;; changes has any bad effects.
 		    (yes-or-no-p
 		     (format
 		      "nnimap: Group %s is not uidvalid.  Continue? " group)))