Do you know if the standard imap client does a get of uids of the message index?
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501 says there is a uid command. if the client does, the hash thing probably should work, even if the messages are in different orders? -tim On Aug 17, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Joshua Armstrong wrote: > On 8/17/2012 2:46 PM, tim wrote: >> and the imap client probably does a similar: >> >> for (int i=messagesIhaveRecieved;i<countMessageOnServer; ++i) >> { >> //blahblahblah >> } >> >> >> >> >> > <snip> Yes. That's why the first thing an IMAP client when you ask it to > "get a folder/mailbox" is download a list of messages from the server. I > have tcpdump output confirming that a sequential integer is used when > requesting messages from the server. > > -- > Joshua M. Armstrong > Software Engineer > Centurion, Inc. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
