On Fri, 7 May 2010, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
loss of the state we are talking about here. it's all based on mark's
postulation that a tcp connection is reliable.
TCP connections are reliable. Run, don't walk, to your nearest technical
bookstore and read about network layering.
Crappy software implementations may be unreliable.
In my own review of several IMAP RFCs, it's clear that connection problems
have been anticipated and several options have been standardized,
i suggest you verify the chronology of events. and compare the names on
particular rfcs.
Ah, sophomores who read a little and think that they understand all.
If you actually read through the history of IMAP RFCs, you would have read
RFC 1733 and learned the purpose of IMAP synchronization. You would have
also noticed when UIDs were introduced, and by whom. Next, you would have
learned the purpose of CONDSTORE.
But it's so much easier to jump to conclusions.
Before you mention QRESYNC, you should first see if anyone actually uses
it. The mobile device world barely stifled a yawn over the entire
LEMONADE effort, and no major commerical implementations are doing
anything about it. It turned out, as predicted years earlier, to be a
solution in search of a problem.
-- Mark --
http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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