> On 04/06/2022 1:29 PM Marc <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if there is some way to force an imap client to 're-download' 
> all the messages from the inbox. I can remember in the 'old days' that when 
> the connection was dropped during a pop download, the whole inbox was 
> re-downloaded, resulting in quite a lot of duplicates. I am looking for such 
> action.

You can change the UIDVALIDITY of the mailbox.  This invalidates the client 
cache which would cause a (well-behaving) client to rebuild that mailbox from 
current server state.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3501#section-2.3.1.1

michael

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