Re: nnimap UIDVALIDITY problem on exchange server

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> For a long time, I was able to read mail in my INBOX on an exchange
> server.  Then last Thursday, things stopped working.  I got some very
> strange behaviour, then I got messages about wrong UIDVALIDITY.
> 
> I did a G p and removed the UIDVALIDITY entry, and that removed the
> error messages.

I think that might not have been a good idea.  Gnus remembers things
about a group based on article numbers.  And when the UIDVALIDITY
value changes, that means the article numbers might have changed, too.

Your idea of `G DEL'-ing the group was a good one.  Maybe the group
wasn't really deleted?  I think it is important to say `s' to save the
.newsrc.eld file, then check the file to see if Gnus really deleted
all traces of this group from the .newsrc.eld file.  In particular, no
article number information should remain.

I think it would also be good to quit Gnus after `G DEL', then restart
it.

kai
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