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From: | Lyndon Nerenberg |
Subject: | Re: [Nmh-workers] exciting new stuff for 2.0 (IMAP proposal) |
Date: | Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:06:13 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20060105) |
> This could be
done with a file on the server, since IMAP allows fairly free formfile retrieval,
Don't count on that. Only uw-imap thinks it's a file server. Most servers will enforce at least minimal RFC2822 compliance on the data they serve up, let alone accept via APPEND.
Yes, and this is much more portable than the hack you describe above. But beware of namespace issues. Twice (thrice?) upon a time I started on a draft that would allow for a reserved-for-vendors chunk of the flag namespace. I really should finish the damned thing.or it could be done with flags where the server permitsthe definition of new flags.
You should also take a look at ANNOTATE. It's a lot heavier than using flags, but gives you a lot more flexibility (when you have a server that supports ANNOTATE, of course).I don't think there would be performance issues with either option, but using flags is definitely better for data integrity where the mail might be accessed by different clients.
--lyndon
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