Re: [Evolution] Evolution downloads POP3 inbox multiple times

[Rus Hughes <rus digitalbrain com>]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 16:42 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi rus,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 14.11.2006, 13:36 +0000 schrieb Rus Hughes:
> > We have our own in house POP3 server and have noticed that Evolution
> > users that choose to "Leave messages on server" end up downloading the
> > entire of their inbox again when a new E-mail arrives and was wondering
> > if something was up with our server, or whether it's a bug in Evolution?
> >
> > Any insight would be appreciated, all we can think of is it is because
> > the order of the UIDL changes when the new E-mail arrives?
>
> There are several possible reasons when this happens:
> * You have got several copies in your mailbox
> * The mail server supports the UIDL extension yet changes the message
> UIDs each session
> * The mail server does not support UIDL (which means Evolution has to
> generate UIDs using md5sums of the message headers) but the server
> changes the message headers after download (usually adding a Status: or
> X-Status: header - Evolution's md5sum ignores these, but Evolution may
> be missing other headers that this particular server munges)
> * ~/.evolution/mail/pop/cache-* files are not writable
>
> cheers,
> andre
Hi,

As per the tcpdumps ( http://www.idimmu.net/evolution/ ), there are not
multiple copies in the mailbox, the server supports the UIDL extension
and doesn't change the message UID each session.

Evo only downloads the entire inbox again if a new email arrives
changing the *order* of the UIDLs, this is with Evo 2.6.1.

It's weird.

Thanks,

Rus