On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Christian Kratzer wrote:
just for the record. I just tested with cyrus imap and verified by reading source. In it's proprietary mailstore the message text is stored in one file per message. Upon expunge it immediately unlinks the files making the message text unavailable for other sessions.
It was already mentioned that that was how Cyrus worked, and the Cyrus people asserted that there weren't many problems with doing that. However, they also admitted that it caused Cyrus to behave inconsistently.
Well, to help out the "new" folks, I think I'm the only one who said that, and it's not obvious to connect me with Cyrus unless you look back a few years. Mirapoint's IMAP server shares that behavior to the best of my knowledge, although some of the others differ from what's in 2180.
Cyrus has done this for as long as I can remember. It has never been pointed out to me as a problem except in theory.
Tim
