> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 14:49:56 -0700 (PDT) > From: Mark Crispin <mrc...@panda.com>
> > 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. i must have spoken improperly. if i say "scan" and learn thereby about messages 1,3,5,20 and then one month later after every computer has been power cycled four times i say "show 5" i want the same message. this is insane but i want it anyway. imap's statefulness isn't nearly persistent enough for me. a "show" command that used MH as a mail store would have to have the same behaviour, but it can be local to the MH host rather than relying on IMAP extensions. (so, some other MH-over-IMAP client could see different message numbers for the same underlying messages.) _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list Imap-uw@u.washington.edu http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
