[Imap-uw] an interesting problem

[Mark Crispin]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, David Relson wrote:
> Interesting what you report.  Is it your thought that 1 (or several
> bogus headers) would cause uw-imap to download _all_ the messages
> saved on the server?  I ask because the behavior I saw last Tuesday
> was a repeated download of the 8000+ messages in the mail server's
> mailbox.

Yes!

Counterfeit metadata can break the UID regime and cause a new UID regime 
to be created.  That, in turn, will cause the new download.

This only happens with traditional UNIX mailbox format.  Better formats do 
not have this problem.

-- Mark --

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