Re: Zoe not fetching reclassified mesages from Popfile

Ming-Li <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:20:47 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.mail.zoe.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Sorry for the belated reply. We had a big conference here the last two
days and I simply had no time to write.

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:40:12 +0100 Zoe <[email protected]> wrote:

> The issue here is that emails are supposedly immutable... which means  
> that they shouldn't change... ever... and, in effect, reclassifying an  
> email is equivalent to changing its content... this is the crux of the  
> problem you are confronting...

I'm not sure I understand you here. As far as the header is concerned, I
believe it's changed many times before reaching my inbox.

> You can reset the UID store by deleting the content of  
> "<ZOE>/Library/SZ/Storages/535A53746F7265/ 
> alt.dev.szmail.SZServiceAgent/"... 

This will cause Zoe to re-retrieve *all* the mail on the server, right?

> One way or another, presently there is no transparent way to process an  
> identical message twice... perhaps a little "forget" method of some  
> sort would come handy... 

That would be great.

> alternatively, something like POPFile  could/should provide a new UID
> as well as a new Message-ID if it needs  to reclassify a message... 

Don't know how Popfile can do that, since that involves manipulating
messages on the server.

-- 
Best regards,
Ming-Li



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