On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Mark Champion wrote: > > I understand that message UID order is somehow mixed up, but I don't > > know how to fix it.
You can't fix it. All you can do is prevent it from happening again. You are almost certainly using traditional UNIX mailbox format. Something other than [imapd | ipop3d | pine | other program based upon the c-client library] is manipulating your mailbox file(s). In the error message that you reported, the 186th message has a UID of 361. This is reasonable, except that the mailbox metadata reports that the highest assigned UID in the mailbox is 189. The c-client library always updates the "highest assigned UID" when adding a message with a UID. Consequently, something else put that message there. Perhaps you have spam filter software which, after a mailbox has been opened, goes through the mailbox and copies messages to another mailbox. If that spam filter is not based upon the c-client library, it may not know better than to copy the X-UID: header. The solution is to fix things so that whatever entity is playing with your mailbox file is forbidden to touch "old messages" which have a UID assigned. If Squirrelmail is accessing your mailbox file directly, see if it can be made to use POP3 or IMAP instead. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
