[kdepim-users] Re: UIDL errors

[Mark]

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
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