Re: IMAP revisited

[Sudish Joseph <sudish@mindspring.com>]

Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> writes:
> 3) don't have active files, etc on the server.
> 4) can maintain sequences/marks/etc on the server.

This is the key missing functionality.  Most of the work, I think,
would be in adding stuff to the backend api to let Gnus query the
backend for all state.  

Note that this is useful for lots more stuff than IMAP.  For instance,
such an api would allow the writing of a clean nnml-with-aynch-delivery 
backend.  

Essentially, Gnus has to stop telling backends what the article
number of a message should be.  For starters.

-Sudish