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

2000-09-11 Thread Dan Harkless
John Reinhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], also sprach "Dan Harkless": The last time I remember IMAP support coming up was quite awhile ago, and the commentary (from Richard Coleman??) was that IMAP support probably wouldn't be forthcoming because IMAP would

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

2000-09-11 Thread Dan Harkless
clemensF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, your thoughts really make it clear how much potential work is here. Sounds like most of the issues arise from cache handling, though. Perhaps a first implementation could do everything live on the IMAP server. whenever making copies... that's a

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

2000-09-11 Thread Jerry Peek
On 11 September 2000 at 15:01, "Dan Harkless" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: multiple users sharing a single nmh folder (with unique sequences) has to be a pretty darn rare situation IMO, it's rare because people these days don't think of being able to do it; they're used to GUI mail front-ends that

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

2000-09-11 Thread Dan Harkless
Neil W Rickert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That brings up another point (perhaps a bug?) Msg-Protect: 664 (from my '.mh_profile') is ignored on "Fcc:". Thus if a folder is shared between users, messages recorded by "Fcc:" are not shareable -- they get 600 permissions, which is

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

2000-09-11 Thread Ken Hornstein
IMO, it's rare because people these days don't think of being able to do it; they're used to GUI mail front-ends that don't allow (?) this kind of thing. Use an IMAP client recently? "Shared" mailboxes are already part of the IMAP specification. Most reasonable ones deal with them just fine.