Re: .agentview and .overview

[Tassilo Horn]

Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

> In several groups there where articles that when I wanted to open I got
> the message that they were deleted. There was no way I could update the
> group to have them not displayed. After some searching I found that
> those articles had an entry in .overview without that there was a
> corresponding article on my IMAPS server. The way I solved it, was by
> deleting those lines in .overview. I have several questions about this:
> - What could the reason be that this happened?

The reason is most probably that your imap server is agentized.  Sadly,
the agent doesn't play nicely with backends that support article
deletion.  The best I can suggest is: don't agentize your imap server,
and if that results in bad performance, consider running a local IMAP
server which you sync with remote accounts using OfflineIMAP.  Dovecot
is a good choice.  It's very lightweight, and easy to configure.

Bye,
Tassilo