Hi Kwirirai,

Nice to hear from someone from Zimbabwe, I have a friend who lives near Chegutu.

As I understand it James encodes the mail UID, which is generated by the programme 
used to create the mail, James uses JavaMail to create messages. 
I suspect that the specification for this UID will state the limits of uniqueness 
required, but I assume it will be something like "unique in the world" because mail 
moves from machine to machine.

I believe that Mail clients rely on this UID and POP3's UIDL command in "leave 
messages on the server" functionality, to prevent mail being downloaded twice and so 
on.

d.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kwirirai [mailto:kwiri@;ibsdev.africaonline.co.zw]
> Sent: 21 October 2002 23:05
> To: 'James Developers List'
> Subject: AvalonMailRepository key generation
> 
> 
>  
>  
> Hi 
> Could you help me in figuring out how the keys for storing mail in
> AvalonMailRepository are implemented .I have tried to follow the source
> code but to no avail.
> What I really want to know is how are the keys generated in such a way
> that duplicates do not occur even if the server is shut down.I am just
> trying to get a better 
> understanding of James storage.
>  
> Kwirirai Nhakwi
>  
> Harare, Zimbabwe  
>  
>  
> 


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