[bug-mailutils] mailutils, message uids & maildir

[Stephen Bylo]

I see there is a function provided called
    message_get_uid(message_t, int* ).

My questions:

(1)
Why is there not any function to retrieve a message_t given a uid ?
or have i not been able to find it.
Right now we loop through all mails looking for the uid (using
libmu_mbox) and then use mailbox_get_message( m_mbox, msgno, &msg ) to
retrieve message_t using the "running" number!
Q: Can we do this in a better way?

(2)
We want now to convert from mbox to maildir (we submitted a patch
recently!).
It seems that only mbox implements the uid "feature" (ie. puts X-UID
into email headers).  We are thinking of using the first 2 fields of the
email's file name to create a uid (in this case a string) to identify
the emails at later stages.  Of course an int might be better, but we
are in a hurry.
Q: Is this the right way to go to correctly identify emails when using a
maildir folder?

We are using version 0.4 with our maildir patch applied.

Thanxs for any help!
Steve