On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Michael Weinberger wrote:
> This can result in a confusing behaviour. Example: > A mail has been sent to you last week. The mail is stored in Maildir/new. > Today you check your mailbox. This mail then is moved to the Maildir/cur. > With UW-IMAP, the timestamp will change. If you use a mail client, which use > the 'internal date' as the 'arrival date' the message appears as received > today. I don't understand how the mail client is getting the "internal date" (which is no longer "internal" once it is exported from the IMAP daemon environment). There's obviously something that I don't understand. Is there part of the IMAP protocol which sends this "internal" concept of date to the client? If messages are stored in mbx or mbox format, there is no file time stamp per message, so wu-imapd must be using something else. If it's something as sane as "time of last Received header", then I don't see why the maildir patched wu-imapd couldn't do the same thing. Except perhaps that it would be an efficiency thing, in that each message would need to be opened to extract the headers. That's not such an issue with a "one big file containing all messages" format, as that needs to be scanned in any case. -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Product Developer Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
