On 25 Feb 2003, Jonas Pasche wrote: >Hi Andy, >> >Which document requires this? I don't know better, but it seems to be a >> >stupid requirement to use the "new" folder when copying or moving >> >messages, thus losing all flags... >> It's a strict requirement in Maildir, to avoid losing emails. >It's not that I don't trust you (in fact, I want to); I'm just inable to >find that requirement in the Maildir definition.
You will probably find interest in reading the following thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail&m=104250383122015&w=2 Sam of Courier-IMAP claimed that OpenBSD's random pid assignment broke qmail and Courier-IMAP. It certainly broke Courier-IMAP. >> >I sometimes move a bunch of mails to a new folder, i.e. from >> >"qmail-current" to "qmail-2003-01". Does that mean that moving 3000 >> >messages requires _additional_ 3000 seconds to happen? > No, an additional _one_ second. :-) >Sounds acceptable ;) but still like a clumsy workaround... Anyway, I >don't think it is acceptable for the average user to lose all flags when >moving a message around. That may well be so. I'll look into it. :-) Andy -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | Nil desperandum
