From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8700 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: visigoth@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP revisited Date: 09 Nov 1996 20:02:44 -0500 Sender: visigoth@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148829 13815 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:20:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:20:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 14261 invoked from smtpd); 10 Nov 1996 01:10:47 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by deanna.miranova.com with SMTP; 10 Nov 1996 01:10:46 -0000 Original-Received: from naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu (NAIAD.FAC.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.191.173]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 02:03:24 +0100 Original-To: "(ding) Gnus Mailing List" In-Reply-To: David Moore's message of 09 Nov 1996 16:33:07 -0800 Original-Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.55/XEmacs 19.14 Source-Info: Sender is really visigoth@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8700 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8700 David Moore 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. 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.