Re: [Nmh-workers] IMAP, again

[chad]

On 24 Oct 2013, at 18:17, Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> wrote:

>> But that describes a simple 1:1 mapping case.  Nothing there says the
>> proof extends to the 1:n mapping case (i.e. multiple clients).
> 
> Fair enough ... I'm just trying to imagine exactly a) what "conflicting"
> clients would be doing, exactly, to conflict, and b) what SHOULD happen
> when a conflict occurs.  As I understand it, the messages are immutable,
> so there's no issue in terms of two clients changing a message.

For anyone who's looking to implement something new, I think that
git's internal architecture might be a good starting place, written
in C.  In slightly related news, I looked at notmuch recently, and
it made me miss MH.

~Chad