From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37889 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: INBOX is not uidvalid Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 20:00:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200108171742.f7HHg8u04526@bothner.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035173563 17948 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:12:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:12:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 4474 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2001 18:00:27 -0000 Original-Received: from dolk.extundo.com (195.42.214.242) by gnus.org with SMTP; 17 Aug 2001 18:00:27 -0000 Original-Received: from barbar.josefsson.org (slipsten.extundo.com [195.42.214.241]) (authenticated) by dolk.extundo.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7HI0Ww00578; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 20:00:32 +0200 Original-To: Per Bothner In-Reply-To: <200108171742.f7HHg8u04526@bothner.com> (Per Bothner's message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:42:08 -0700") Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 Original-Lines: 36 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37889 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37889 Per Bothner 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)))