Re: Returning to ticks on read-only imap servers

[Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>]

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On Fri, Oct 08 2010, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Not.  :-)  You only know the number, not which ones, so you can't really
> say what happened.

But you do not care about which ones in the group buffer, I think.

> If you had high 50, unseen 25, and it increase to high 55, unseen 23,
> how do you know whether that's 5 new articles, and two old that were
> read, or 1 new article, and three that were read?

What's "high"? The last article number (UIDNEXT?) ?

> Just work through the scenarios, and keep in mind that the UIDNEXT isn't
> necessarily consecutive. 

I did not talk about UIDNEXT, but about UIDVALIDITY, which if it
changes, indicate a change in the mailbox.

My point is that in the *Group* buffer we (mostly) need how many
messages and how many unread message there's in the group, and STATUS
give that for free, with an indicator (UIDVALIDITY) indicating *if* we
need to do a FETCH 1:* on group entering. :-)

-- 
Julien Danjou
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