On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Randall Gellens wrote: > Thus, after making the switch pre-existing messages in the spool will > have UIDs that contain a random element, while new messages won't. > So there shouldn't be a problem with downloading old mail again.
The question is what the CPU hit is like. > However, there is a greater chance of duplicate UIDs, which means > that potentially some messages might not get downloaded (since they > seem to be the same as an earlier message to the client). putting that in context, it was more of a problem with the older, shorted UIDLs, with current ones it should be unlikely even with a few thousand messages in the inbox on the client machine and the servefr. AB
