Re: [Nmh-workers] urls from mhpath, and message store abstraction layers.

[paul vixie]

On 2/6/2012 3:58 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> IMAP messages are immutable. You cannot change them after the fact.
>
> This us one of the many tricky issues with supporting an IMAP message store. 
> E.g., it will be difficult to make anno behave correctly in all cases.

if the underlying message store is immutable, i expect anno to do one of
two things:

1. maintain state locally -- this means other IMAP users on the same or
other hosts will not see anno's changes.

2. fail.

overall i prefer #2.