Data is never corrupted as far as I know. However, deleting cache is required.
-ag -- pl. excuse brevity & possible typos - sent from a tiny device. On 18-Apr-2012, at 7:52 PM, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > I have been using offlineimap and isync - more or less similar > applications to sync local Maildir with IMAP server. (Rather tried isync > after running into captioned issue with offlineimap to see whether it > improves on this aspect. But eventually even isync ran into this.) > > I have found that both these apps run into "uid validity" errors over a > period of time. Once you run into this issue, there is no easy way out, > except for deleting the cached data and resyncing. > > I am not sure whether this issue is avoidable (since I do not understand > what causes it - perhaps a broken sync operation due to power down in the > middle of sync or network issue, rather than any geuine changes on server > side. That's a guess.) > > Are there any alternatives to offline viewing of mails such that you can > sync the changes made locally back to the server (just like either of the > above programs does). > > Alternatively, is there any way to avoid above problem or a safe, reliable > way to mitigate corrupt local data? > > Mayuresh. > > _______________________________________ > Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
