My understanding of UID, was "Unique Idenitifier" (a few years back I wrote a mail client for automated processing of some control messages). The Server I was using at the time, handed out UID's and they didn't change during the course of a session - even if a message was deleted, allowing you to use the same UID to retrieve a message (even if you had already deleted other message from the inbox).
Admittedly this was POP, and also admittedly, I don't know the RFC for IMAP as maybe I should before saying this, but what happens if we make IMAP UID more like POP's? http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-mailutils/2001-01/msg00026.html My understanding is that IMAP UID is supposed to be ascending, but POP3's requirement is simply that it be unique? What would happen if IMAP UID was simply unique? Would client software break? Much client software is used to dealing with POP where only uniqueness is required, so perhaps it would be fine? Or am I way off base? m/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sam Varshavchik Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 2:43 PM To: Courier-Users Subject: [courier-users] Re: imapd slow Mitch \(WebCob\) writes: > Ok, so maybe I'm crazy, but couldn't the UID be generated in a reversable > form from the filename itself? Thereby eliminating the database and allowing > a message to keep it's UID across file moves? A UID is a numerical counter. Some have advocated inserting the UID into the filename. That's not going to work for a number of reasons (think moving a message to a different folder). ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
