On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Ted Cabeen wrote: > >(Note that you can also rebuild the mailbox with the reconstruct command, > >but I don't recommend this as a general solution). > > Right. Other than losing the flags data, are there any other downsides to > this solution? (We were thinking of using this to delete old messages from > users spam folders)
It has the possibility of changing the uidvalidity of the mailbox, which can force disconnected clients to have to resync totally. Note that this *shouldn't* be the case if you've just deleted a message from the mailbox, but its something to consider. Really, you want to delete these messages with a UID EXPUNGE command. (Though, now you'll be messing with the \Recent flag for the user...). -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
