Hello to this list, Hello Sam, I'm sorry for posting about this problem here, but the competence in this list (especially Sam's) is way higher than elsewhere on the subjects of IMAP and Co. That's why I'm hoping to find a hint to a problem I'm seeing when supporting users using Apple Mail (in situations where I just can't move them to another mailer).
This is: Apple Mail makes an SQLite database with metadata about messages, to display them faster. This database gets screwed up regularly, I have to delete it and let it rebuild. I'm trying to track down the problem to make an appropriate bug report and/or verify that it's not my courier configuration that has something wrong. I'm asking about some hints regarding the IMAP synchronisation: What are courier's message IDs based on? The Apple Mail database maintains a "remote_id" which in 90% seems to be an integer, in some it looks more like an md5, and there are even some other examples where it looks completely different. Although I haven't seen it happen on mails hosted on other servers than courier, this must be a client problem, since it's the client's DB screwing up, not other clients or the webmailer. I'd just be glad on any hint (even just about appropriate reading on imap and/or courier's implementation) to see if I can track this down. So my question is: are there possible ID-concurrency scenarios in the IMAP protocol and/or in courier, which could be bad-interpreted or badly-used by $%##$(@ software like Apple Mail, in an effort to match them with a local store? Can the server filesystem play a role in this or any local server software such as fam and Co.? Thanks a lot for reading this, it's really driving me nuts lately... Regards, Lorenzo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
