From: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>
Cc: Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Returning to ticks on read-only imap servers
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:26:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762xbpya5.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871v7zss5i.fsf@maru.md5i.com> (Michael Welsh Duggan's message of "Sat, 09 Oct 2010 04:10:33 -0400")
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On Sat, Oct 09 2010, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:
> After re-reading that section, I think you are mistaken. UIDVALIDITY is
> guaranteed not to change as long as the messages in the mailbox have not
> changed their UIDs (or rather, as long as the mailbox maintains its
> identity). It does not change with the addition, or deletion, of
> messages to that mailbox. On the other hand, the UIDNEXT does change
> with the addition of new messages to the mailbox. It will not, however,
> change with the deletion of messages. The triple of mailbox name,
> UIDVALIDITY, and message UID will always refer to the same message no
> matter what, as long as that message still exists.
Yeah, re-re-reading I think you're right indeed.. UIDVALIDITY is not the
thing I wanted it to be.
That sucks.
--
Julien Danjou
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-05 19:16 Michael Welsh Duggan
2010-10-05 20:25 ` Steinar Bang
2010-10-05 21:01 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2010-10-07 18:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-07 21:37 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2010-10-07 22:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-08 15:07 ` James Cloos
2010-10-08 17:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-08 18:22 ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-08 18:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-08 18:28 ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-08 18:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-08 19:34 ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-08 21:32 ` Dan Christensen
2010-10-09 6:57 ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-09 8:10 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2010-10-09 8:26 ` Julien Danjou [this message]
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