Hiroshima, I'm sad to say that this patch is not safe and should not be applied yet. There is a problem with guaranteeing message name uniqueness and that may cause messages to disappear.
Storing messages in cur/ directly has been discussed quite a few times before on the list, and it is provably not safe. Storing messages with flags in new/ is a new concept, but it suffers from the exact same problem - since the message name under new/ is no longer guaranteed to be unique, the message may be lost. The only safe approach to COPY/APPEND with flags is to store the messages in new/ with no flags, then move the messages to cur/ with flags after one whole second has passed. I'm looking into this solution now. Andy :-) On Fri, 30 May 2003, HIROSHIMA Naoki wrote: >hi there, > >this patch fixes the problem that binc clears up preserved flags when >copying or moving messages. > >although it might not be critical issue right now, i don't like binc to >have such an easy issue to be pointed out. > >-- Hiroshima > > -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | Nil desperandum
