On Tue August 21 2007 12:20:23 pm Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:38:17AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > On Tue August 21 2007 10:02:58 am Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > Could you avoid caching the UIDVALIDITY until the first time you've
> > > done something likely to stabilize it?  Hmm, doesn't look easy.
> > > Possibly try SELECT and fall back to EXAMINE only if imapobj.readonly?
> > > Will this break \Recent somehow?
> >
> > I don't know.  I don't use readonly folders myself, and they seem to be
> > implemented differently from server to server anyway.  I'm hesitant to
> > touch that code too much.
>
> I think it's the only sensible way things will work with existing
> Courier.

It's clear that we need to do something here.  I'll think on it for a bit, 
but I suppose this does sound sensible.

> > I would think that Courier would *have* to write to disk in that
> > situation.
>
> Maybe it has to, but it doesn't.  I can provoke an IMAP protocol
> violation by trying this.  I would still be happy if offlineimap

I assume you used strace or something on it?

> could avoid this newly discovered problem, so I think we should leave
> this bug assigned to offlineimap; I will open a new one for courier.

I agree.  I actually cloned this bug earlier today and assigned the clone to 
Courier already.  See 438993.

-- John


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