On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 03:22:38PM +0200, Michael Menge wrote: > Quoting Bron Gondwana <br...@fastmail.fm>: > > >Can anyone think of any good reason we should allow zero byte > >files to be appended via IMAP? Just that I'm currently going > >over the reconstruct code - and that's one of the few places > >where it actually changes things. > > Some applications (e.g. Kolab) store other objects than Mail (e.g. > Addressbooks, Calendar, Tasks or Notes) in IMAP folders. They might > create empty objects for some reason.
Well that's pretty evil. The objects should still have a header, right? Or do they just store blobs? > >Reconstruct will always unlink a zero byte file and remove the > >record - but IMAP APPEND will actually create one. We should > >align the behaviour one way or the other! If so, then reconstruct should let those messages stay! Bron.
