Keeping Track of An Email That Has Been Moved

[Jerry Malcolm]

I need a little more education... I understand that fundamentally IMAP 
and all mail storage is pretty much 'top down'.  The user starts at the 
top folder and drills down through sub folders until they locate the 
email in question.   And there are search engines that basically do the 
same drilling down and find matching emails. Let's say I need to return 
to a specific email often, so I set up an external 'bookmark' that 
references the account and folder path of this email, and via IMAP I can 
easily access this email at any time.  No problems whatsoever with 
that.  The problem happens when the user decides to clean out a folder 
and move the mail to an "Archived Mail - 2019" folder.  From what I can 
tell, it's a new sunrise for that email in its new location with no way 
to back link it to my previously bookmarked folderPath.  Is that 
correct?   Is there any unique database information for that mail record 
that I could save and subsequently use to find it again once it has 
changed folders?  I'm simply looking for a guaranteed unique UID that 
would allow me to keep track of an email as long as it is somewhere in 
the database.  This doesn't have to be something exposed in IMAP.  I 
have no problem going straight to the database and finding a record with 
this 'possible' UID if that is necessary in order to update my 
'bookmark'.  Is there any UID already available that persists for the 
life of the email I've totally missed?  Or is this just something I need 
to live with for now?

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