Paul Vixie <[email protected]> writes: > On 12/6/2011 8:43 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote: >>>> It seems that IMAP has the concept of a "message sequence number", >>>> which is a number from 1 to the number of messages in a folder; that >>>> might be the right thing to use. > > no. MH message numbers can have holes and can be reassigned. IMAP is > always 1..N, no holes.
You know, unless I'm missing something, the holes in our messages numbers could be considered a bug. I find it annoying to have to use "folder -pack" occasionally. If we kept our folders packed, then we could get rid of the folder -pack option. See my next message... -- Bill Wohler <[email protected]> aka <[email protected]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
