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Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

[...]

> It might translate back and forth between Gnus-article# and
> IMAP-article# but that would be really slow, and the whole point of
> having state in the server is lost.

Simon,

Having seen your reiteration above, do you have any answers to my
question of what needs to change in Gnus to support _proper_ operation
of nnimap with maildir-inspired IDs? Is it even possible?

-- 
Steven E. Harris
Primus Knowledge Solutions, Inc.
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