On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 05:34:00PM -0400, George Clemmer wrote: > On 05/07/2018 at 05:55 Ciprian Dorin Craciun writes: > > On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 3:05 AM George Clemmer <myg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> So ... this led me to wonder ... Would using a "stable" name based on a > >> checksum be a useful improvement? Naturally, since I am a Git addict, I > >> am thinking of 'git hash-object' ;-) > > > > > > Myself would think this would be a lovely idea, however due to the `X-TUID` > > header it would be pointless... > > I haven't had a chance to look at `X-TUID` but I wonder if a hashed file > name couldn't replace it. > the whole *point* of the tuid is that it is random, so even duplicated messages (which you could produce with your MUA) are reliably propagated. but the t in tuid stands for temporary, and you can just remove them after the sync is done. caveat: per imap spec, that's illegal, because messages shall be immutable. violating this particular aspect is unlikely to cause problems, though, especially when the maildir is actually never accessed via imap.
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