From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8698 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sudish Joseph Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP revisited Date: 09 Nov 1996 18:14:35 -0500 Sender: sj@atreides.mindspring.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.84) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148828 13812 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:20:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 13477 invoked from smtpd); 9 Nov 1996 23:34:33 -0000 Original-Received: from riker.diamond-lane.net (root@206.190.83.4) by deanna.miranova.com with SMTP; 9 Nov 1996 23:34:33 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by riker.diamond-lane.net (8.8.2/8.8.0) with SMTP id PAA16301 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 15:37:34 -0800 Original-Received: from atreides.mindspring.com (qmailr@atreides.mindspring.com [204.180.142.236]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 10 Nov 1996 00:14:37 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 5583 invoked by uid 52477); 9 Nov 1996 23:14:35 -0000 Original-To: The Ding List In-Reply-To: Scott Blachowicz's message of Sat, 09 Nov 1996 13:31:45 -0800 Original-Lines: 16 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8698 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8698 Scott Blachowicz 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