Michael Richardson wrote:
Lyndon Nerenberg<lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote:
>> So, each message has a (U?)UID? Are the integers a subset of that?
> UIDs increase monotonically within a folder. Sequence numbers are just
> the index number into the dynamic array that represents the current set
> of messages visible withing a folder. UIDs never change (for all
> practical purposes), whereas sequence numbers change all the time.
So, if we forbid "pack", we can have UIDs rather than sequence numbers?
we would also have to forbid sortm. i think that way lies madness, since
UID's are often 7 and 8 digit numbers, bad for human consumption.
the earlier suggestion to maintain a mapping between message numbers as
seen by the MH toolset and UID's seen by IMAP, makes sense to me. though
for Maildir i don't know if there are UID's.
--
P Vixie
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