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

[Dan Harkless]

Jerry Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In nmh, multiple users can share the same mail folder.  Each user
> typically has their own private context for that shared folder stored
> in their own $HOME/Mail/context file.  So different users can see a
> different view of that folder's sequences.  The same would be true for
> one user who accessed a folder on an IMAP message store from multiple
> hosts: the user would have different context at each host, and that's
> the way it would be.

Um, I'm not sure everyone would be content with "and that's the way it would
be", especially since I believe that's contrary to the spirit of IMAP.  And
multiple users sharing a single nmh folder (with unique sequences) has to be
a pretty darn rare situation, so I'm not sure I buy it as a reason for why
you couldn't implement seamless mailbox viewing from host to host with
nmh/IMAP.

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