On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 02:53, Rodney Price wrote: > It appears that I have three options: > > 1. Encourage client vendors to change this practice. > > 2. Announce new messages to all connections promptly. > > 3. Take Timo suggestion and notice the message underneath.
> Two is the most compliant solution, but will still will not solve the problem with > out changes from at least Evolution. I actually just fixed that in Evolution. > Will three cause issues with other clients or cause our IMAP server to violate the > RFC? If client asks something that violates RFC, I think server is allowed to reply whatever it wants. The way my server does it is that it accepts UIDs even for messages that client hasn't been notified yet, but '*' in messagesets still refers to the last notified message.
