Re: IMAP revisited

[visigoth@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu]

David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU> writes:

> 	I must be missing something, since only the fetch commands to
> the backends have an article number provided by gnus.  Routines like
> BACKEND-request-accept-article are given a group and the body of the
> article and come up with their own number for it.
> 
> 	Or are you referring to the backend renumbering old articles
> when Gnus isn't looking?  That's a definite problem, certainly.

The IMAP model is that the server does all the message management
internally, including purges, reordering, whatever.  It keeps track of
flags on each message.  There -is- a UID (unique identifier)
associated with each message, but it's a little harder to work with
than just the sequence number.  <shrug>

There are a number of ways of dealing with this sort of thing.

As a note--I know of a couple of people (including myself) have looked
at doing IMAP for Gnus.  However, I just haven't had time to make any
significant progress, and I suspect the same is true of the other guy
I know who was looking at it.  (I'm sure he'll speak up if he's still
working on it.)

John.