Re: [9front] upas/fs: copy messages between IMAP folders

["Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>]

> As a detail,
> IMAP, as a protocol, does not support moving
> messages between folders, so moving has to be
> implemented by first copying the message to the
> target folder and then deleting the original
> message from the source folder.  I chose to
> offload this logic to the mail client, as
> presented in the upas/nedmail patch, which
> could also be adapted to acme's Mail.

The IMAP "move" model has always been 'copy + store +flags \deleted'.
This performs the copy operation internally to the IMAP server, so
no data need go over the wire.  I haven't looked at your patch in
detail, but if you have devolved this to the case where a "copy"
between folders on the same server always involves a round trip
through the MUA, this is a horrible pessimization and the patch
should NOT be incorporated as is.

Doing IMAP "right" isn't always easy, and this is a case where you
have to do the extra work in order to do the correct optimization.
You need to reliably figure out if the source and destination paths
in the "move" correspond to the same server+user.  If they do, use
the IMAP COPY command, otherwise fall back to the MUA loop.

--lyndon