Hi Cyrus, I need to for the implementation of another protocol for which mail are retrieved from the IMAP mail server.
Using hex string is a good idea but that protocol restrict me to decimal values. My api should retrieve the mails one by one and all the time indicates with 5 decimals an identifier to the current retrieved mail and to the next mail. A caching solution is excluded here as my api could be called from different front-end for a same session. Thanks, Barra On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 16:16, Cyrus Daboo wrote: > Hi Barra, > > --On Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:01 AM +0000 Barra Seck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | I'm writting an IMAP4rev1 client api in which I need to map the UID to a > | 5 digits value for my client. I guess you see the problem here since the > | UID is a 32 bit-value ! > | > | Do someone have an idea of how to achieve that? > > Why do you need to do that? UIDs are not meant to be presented to users in > any fashion they are pruely for the internal workings of the client and > server so an internal four-byte representation (unsigned long) works well. > If you do need to present them in the UI or in some kind of log and you > have a character length restriction, just use the four-character hex string > value.
