On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 09:41:39AM -0400, myg...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 05/08/2018 at 09:35 Oswald Buddenhagen writes:
> > 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.
> 
> This sounds like a "corner case" that is not important to me.
>
until you lose data because of it. ;)

> I think I would rather have the files in my local Maildir be identical
> to Gmail files. 
>
that in itself doesn't appear to be a worthwhile goal; it's normal for
the various agents along the mail transfer to add headers.

> IIUC, they now differ by the addition of the X-TUID. Is that
> correct?
> 
yes

> Is X-TUID central to the isync design?  Could the option to turn it off
> (at the risk of duplicates not being propagated) be easily added?
> 
downloads from gmail could make use of the x-gm-msgid header; that one
would be reliable.
everything else can use message-id in as far as present and hopefully
unique.
patches welcome.

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