On Saturday 08 March 2003 19:35, Timo Sirainen wrote: > But sure, as long as IMAP server locks the Maildir it can work fine as > long as other MUAs aren't modifying the message flags. Even then it's > very difficult to hit the condition when file isn't seen with readdir().
But since there will be only one imap-server on a mail-server machine, all MUAs will have to go through that imap-server. It would appear, therefore, that the imap-server could block re-scans during message flag modifications. (I haven't reed the imap RFCs, so this might well have implications I haven't thought about.) In any case, being able to drag and drop deep directory structures (as seem from the user's point of view) would be an extremely useful fearure. Mail users are accustomed to been able to drag and drop entire trees locally and explaining why they cannot do the same on "the new mailserver" will not be easy. Sigmund.
