On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:38:17AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Down that path lies madness. > > Opening a folder read-only should refer to the ability of the client to > modify things in it, not to the ability of the server to present consistent > metadata. > > Consider this: On Monday, you connect to a Courier IMAP server and SELECT > folder foo. UIDs are set and a uidvalidity is established. You disconnect > and don't make any further connection attempts until Tuesday. On Tuesday, > you EXAMINE the folder. Courier returns the same UIDVALIDITY as on Monday, > but 50 new messages have arrived. If Courier interprets EXAMINE to > mean "don't open anything writable", how will Courier store the UIDs that > have been assigned to these messages, so that when you EXAMINE again on > Wednesday, you get the exact same UIDs for the same 50 new messages > messages? > > I would think that Courier would *have* to write to disk in that situation.
Let me look into it; I'll get back to you. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
