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

[clemensF]

> John Reinhagen:

> Storing IMAP sequences in one's local filesystem, as Jerry Peek appears to
> be suggesting, is another approach, but it has problems.  There are some
> trivial annoyances -- IMAP folders can't have the same name as local
> folders, for example.  However, there's a more fundamental bug:  The entire
> advantage of IMAP lies in storing parts of one's email environment -- unseen
> messages, etc. -- on a central server that one can access from anywhere.
> Storing sequences on local filesystems violates that idea to the extent that
> people consider sequences to be a part of their email environment.  I submit
> that people would so consider.

the error of which would be that local sequences can get out of sync when
files are chenged on the imap-server or even on the local server.
there's no valid reverse mapping from sequences back to imap-folder-contents,
because imap has no sequences, and if it had, it does not belong to
nmh.  it's more like the other way around.

clemens