Re: [Fwd: Re: Questions about IMAP and sequences]

[clemensF]

> Shantonu Sen:

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> 9) Subfolders!: IMAP supports subfolders. Should we? What would the
>       notation and data representation be? Any backward-compatibility
>       problems? Speaking of which, how would local caches be stored?
>       In a folder called "IMAP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Yuck. Auxiliary
>       files to keep track of mappings?

i'd say files holding sequences.  they'd map to subfolders, if the
term sequence would be a tuple {name, folder, server, msg#, file-id}.

> 10) Authentication: We should leave hooks in for varying authentication
>       schemes so we don't need to make lots of changes later. Things
>       that come to mind include IMAP over SSL. Hopefully, the authentication
>       would be a simple switch based on command-line flags.

yeah, that's ok.  openssl is developed currently and might incorporate
amp and other authorization schemes in the future.

clemens