Re: nnimap and sticky cache

[David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

on Tue Mar 24 2009, Tassilo Horn <tassilo-AT-member.fsf.org> wrote:

> 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.

> (^ in *Group* to enter the
> server buffer, and look out for "agent" in the nnimap lines.)  
>
> The agent doesn't play too well with backends that support article
> movement / deletion, especially if you use it in parallel to other
> clients.
>
> 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... :(

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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