Re: [Evolution] How to disable imap message cache?

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 23:15, Gerard Beekmans wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've got a few computers I work with that all run Evolution and I access
> my mail via IMAP.
>
> I think message headers are being cached by evolution and I'd like to
> disable this, or change the way a cache flush takes place. Right now if
> I were to mark a read message as "unread", it does not show up as such
> in the other Evolution's running on other computers. 

That's not header caching, that's _flag_ caching. The important
difference being that while the IMAP protocol explicitly allows header
caching (which is an important optimisation), it has no support for
caching of _flags_, which is less important.

An IMAP client which caches flags is buggy; unfortunately I know of no
way to turn this off in the Evolution back end at the moment.

> The only way for
> the others to see these kind of changes is by restarting the program. I
> prefer leaving the programs running 24/7 and have them be in sync at all
> times.

You can also do it by going offline and back online again -- which isn't
necessarily much more convenient than closing and restarting,
admittedly.

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dwmw2