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Re: caching not right



On Wednesday, 18 June 2008 at 15:26, dv1445@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a large IMAP folder (~17000 messages), and on the remote
> machine it's a maildir.  Mutt 1.5.18 has just begun ignoring the
> header cache.  When I go to that folder, I see "evauluating cache"
> like normal, but then it starts "fetching headers" starting from
> scratch.  When this finishes, if I go to a different folder and then
> return (or quit mutt and return), mutt cannot remember that it just
> cached all those headers.
> 
> Backend is qdbm.  I'd posted before about how with all backends,
> mutt has been randomly forgetting that it caches this folder.  But
> now it does it every single time.
> 
> Just before this began happening every time, I added a folder-hook
> in my muttrc regarding this large folder (just to set sort=date).  I
> thought maybe that did something weird, so I removed the hook.  But
> the behavior persists.
> 
> Anyone have a clue?  TIA.

My guess is that UIDVALIDITY is changing on the server side. If you
run mutt -d2 it'll log the UIDVALIDITY in .muttdebug0