> 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
