On Fri, 10 May 2002 12:49:40 -0400, Pete Maclean wrote: > > MOVE is unimplementable unless messages are stored in > > a method that permits messages to be moved from one mailbox to another. > > IMAP explicitly does not place such requirements upon the message store. > > Indeed, but surely the same holds true for COPY! One of the mailstores my > server works with supports the moving of messages among folders but not > copying. I had to do a load of kludgey work to fake a copy operation. It > happens to work perfectly well but it is horribly slow.
That is certainly possible. However, IMAP requires the message store to have a COPY operation (however it may have to be done). It does not require a MOVE operation.
