#364 Problem changing "folder size limit"

[Bryan Wright]

When I first set up davmail I set the "folder size limit" in the advanced settings to 1000, thinking that this would make testing quicker since I have a lot of mail. This worked fine, but now I'd like to increase the limit. Setting it to a higher value doesn't seem to affect the number of messages I can see, though. I'm still stuck at 1000. Is there something I need to do to make davmail notice the new setting?

[Mickael Guessant]

You probably need to touch the target folder (just mark a message read or move a message to/from the folder to trigger a folder reload with new setting.

Another approach would be to purge IMAP cache on the client side.

[Bryan Wright]

I've tried marking all messages read, and I've tried moving messages to and from the folder, but thunderbird still sees only 1000 messages, even after restarting. How should I go about clearing the IMAP cache?

[Mickael Guessant]

Are you 100% sure you changed folder size limit in DavMail settings ?
Did you try to restart DavMail and Thunderbird after the change ?
IMAP cache is under ImapMail in your Thunderbird profile folder.

[Bryan Wright]

Hi Michael,

I've checked and double-checked.  The folder size limit is

set to 2000. I've stopped davmail, stopped thunderbird, and then
started both again. I also upgraded from davmail 5.2 to 5.3.
Still, I only see the latest 1000 messages. I've tried moving
messages and marking them read again, too.

I tried clearing Thunderbird's cache, but that didn't

change anything. Does davmail have its own cache?

                Thanks,
                Bryan

mguessan@users.sourceforge.net said:

Are you 100% sure you changed folder size limit in DavMail settings ? Did you
try to restart DavMail and Thunderbird after the change ? IMAP cache is under
ImapMail in your Thunderbird profile folder.

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[support-requests:#364]<https://sourceforge.net/p/davmail/support-requests/364/

Problem changing "folder size limit"

Status: open Group: v5.2.0 Created: Tue Aug 27, 2019 02:05 PM UTC by Bryan
Wright Last Updated: Mon Sep 02, 2019 01:49 PM UTC Owner: nobody

When I first set up davmail I set the "folder size limit" in the advanced
settings to 1000, thinking that this would make testing quicker since I have a
lot of mail. This worked fine, but now I'd like to increase the limit. Setting
it to a higher value doesn't seem to affect the number of messages I can see,
though. I'm still stuck at 1000. Is there something I need to do to make
davmail notice the new setting?

[Mickael Guessant]

Weird, I can confirm DavMail does not have any persistent message cache.

[astoica]

Hi Mickael,

I have the same problem. It doesn't seem to be a caching issue, because if I remove the limit, Thunderbird sees all messages in the folder again. But I set the limit again to any value > 1000 (e.g. 5000), Thunderbird stops at 1000 messages, regardless. Is there a hard limit of 1000 in the code, maybe for performance reasons?

Regards,
Adrian

[Mickael Guessant]

No, there is no such limit. Looks like a client side issue, not clear though.

Somehow the server side limit must break client side IMAP state.
=> the easier workaround is probably to recreate mailbox config in Thunderbird.

[Justin Silvreman]

I am having exact same problem with davmail+mbsync+mu4e, any idea how to solve this?

[Bryan Wright]

Hi Justin,

Sorry, I eventually just gave up and learned to live with it.  Please let me know if you come across a solution.

                    Bryan

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