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Subject:    [sylpheed:27114] Messed up UIDL File?  Re-downloading 1000+ messages.
From:       elliot () speakeasy ! net
Date:       2006-01-31 23:15:40
Message-ID: W4826029947112441138749340 () webmail4
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Hi,

Longtime user, first time poster.  I love sylpheed.  Let me tell you how I broke it :).

I have to use a SSH tunnel to get through a firewall sometimes, so I have two accounts set up.  One \
accesses my POP mailbox directly, the other through the tunnel via localhost.  This generates two UIDL \
files, one like mail.speakeasy.*-elliot and the other localhost.*-elliot. 

I thought I'd get clever and replace the two separate files with symlinks to a single file, so that \
updates to the UIDL file for localhost and speakeasy would both update the same file.  

Somehow, I got my UIDL file(s) out of sync with reality.  It is now missing (and sylpheed is consequently \
trying to download) the first 450 e-mails from the server, which I don't want it to do b/c I've already \
downloaded them, filed, selectively deleted, etc.  

Three questions.  

1) Does anyone else do this kind of thing?  Two web addresses pointing to the same POP mail server?  How \
do you manage the accounts?

2) Is there an easy way to get my UIDL file(s) and the POP server back in sync so that it won't try to \
re-download 450 emails?  Or is it easier to just delete the first 450 mails off the POP server, which I \
plan to eventually do once things are settled?

3) The most general set of questions.  What is the format of the UIDL file?  Looks like UIDL, then a \
timestamp.  What is this last timestamp?  Is it the date that the mail was fetched?  Does sylpheed fetch \
all mails for which there is no entry in the UIDL file?  

If anyone else is in my shoes, they'll be glad to know these answers.  If not, at least I will :).  If \
anyone's interested, I can post about my tunnelling workarounds when I get it fully working.

Thanks,
   Elliot.



  


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