[Phpgroupware-developers] Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Email Application Issues

[Daryl L. L. Houston]

I figured out that this was a problem with caching and checking mail using 
another mail client.  That is, if you check mail with groupware, your inbox 
is cached in the database. If you then use another client to POP mail and 
remove it from the server, the next time you check mail using groupware, the 
cached inbox is displayed, but the links to view individual messages point to 
messages that may or may not actually exist on the server anymore. So if you 
have three messages in your gw cache, but you pop mail through another 
client, the next time you check mail through gw, your inbox will display the 
three messages, but clicking the links will give you an error because the 
messages don't actually exist. Or if you've received, say, two messages since 
you POPped your account through another client, clicking the first two 
messages in gw will display messages; but they're the two new messages rather 
than the ones corresponding to the cached inbox.  There's no check to see 
whether or not the message ID listed in the inbox matches the message ID as 
listed on the server, and the result is the problem described below.  The fix 
I've applied is to write a function that deletes all rows from the cache for 
the given user upon login. This forces the cache to be rebuilt when the mail 
application is loaded, so that any deletions not performed from within gw are 
accounted for.  I've submitted a bug report (#4224 if you're interested) and 
a description of the fix to savannah, though there are probably more elegant 
ways of handling it.

D



On Monday 07 July 2003 10:20 am, Daryl L. L. Houston wrote:
> I have 9.14.506 installed and am having some bizarre issues with the email
> application.  The inboxes of some users are messed up.  For example, a
> message comes in whose subject line does not correspond to the body of the
> message.  It's as if the headers are being separated from the message
> bodies and aren't being reassembled correctly when the inbox is built.  The
> problem doesn't seem to run across all accounts, however.  Mine is fine.  I
> sent myself email both from within the groupware email app and from my
> thick client and from both inside and outside my network for good measure.
> All of my messages came in fine.  At one point (to solve a different
> problem, actually), I deleted the rows in phpgw_anglemail that cached the
> inbox of one of my users.  Even after that clean-up, he encountered this
> weird issue.  I just redownloaded the 9.16 branch of this app (it's what
> was in place before) to see if something's changed since I last grabbed it.
>  The problem began only after I upgraded a month or so ago from 9.14.002 to
> the .16 branch. Thanks for any ideas or experiences you may have to share.
>
> D
>
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> Daryl L. L. Houston
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> Signage Solutions, LLC
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Daryl L. L. Houston
Web Applications Developer
Signage Solutions, LLC
865.342.8270