On Wed, 5 May 2010, Paul Vixie wrote:
damnably, and as you say, there'd have to be a lot of state to preserve the insanity of "message numbers".
IMAP is a stateful protocol. There is nothing insane about message numbers in a stateful message access protocol; this is the entire mechanism upon which state revolves. If you don't want state, then hack HTTP to export messages the way that it already exports HTML documents.
i regret that i am not part of an empire who can afford to hire you just to work on open source software. brian reid of DEC WRL deserves huge thanks for hiring me and then letting me work on BIND after UCB abandoned it. we need more empires in which people like yourself can hide while making stuff.
Sadly, such beneficent empires are few and far between these days. I am being paid today to work on cool email stuff, but it's not open source. -- Mark -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list Imap-uw@u.washington.edu http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
