Re: UIDL errors
Mark <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.users.pim |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Using KMAil 1.13.5. Is there any way to tell KMail to only dl the messages for the last week? Or any date? Am I stuck with download everything based on the UIDLs or do I have other options? TIA, Mark On 05/19/2011 10:26 AM, Torgny Nyblom wrote: > On Wednesday 18 May 2011 10.49.39 Mark wrote: >> Last week, I got an UIDL error when downloading one of my email >> accounts. Everything downloaded fine so I thought it was a temporary >> glitch. Over the weekend, the error reappeared and is now consistant >> with no ability to download that account. On Monday, a different email >> account which is relatively new (2 weeks) started getting the same >> error. As of this morning, none of my 3 accounts will download. >> >> These are 3 different email servers, none of which do I control. I know >> that server #1 was upgraded last week but talking to the sys admins on >> the other two, they haven't done anything different. >> >> I'm not even sure where to begin to fix this problem. A web search >> revealed a bug report that essentially says this may or may not be a bug >> but an expected behavior. > > What version of KMail? > > I think there is a way to "reset" the uidls but I don't know it by heart :( > > If I guess at what bug you were looking at I think that I'm the one who stated > that it is expected behaviour. > > The issue is that by the RFC UIDLs are strictly increasing, meaning that they > may never be reused, however when some servers are upgraded and some when they > have served a number of messages there internal UIDL counter either starts > over (reinstall) or overflows. This makes the email clients to beleve that the > new mails on the server is actualy old mails (lower UIDL then expected). > > /Regards > Torgny > _______________________________________________ > KDE PIM users mailing list > Subscription management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users > _______________________________________________ KDE PIM users mailing list Subscription management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users