Re: Fetching short text snippet for mails

Bron Gondwana <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imapext
Message-ID <1418352388.2848622.201944205.6D1B83DB@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014, at 09:05 AM, Stuart Brandt wrote:
> > You know what, messages don't change that often overall.  I would be totally happy with the idea that every time the modseq changes, the snippet is stale and a client should refetch if it cares.  The whole point is that it's
> >
> > a) small
> > b) cheap for the server to deliver
> >
> > So it's going to cost barely anything in bandwidth or server time to resend the snippet for any message that's had a modseq bump.
> >
> > Bron.
> >
> 
> Sounds good. I'm assuming a modseq change whenever snippet changes would 
> be appropriate too?

Absolutely.  Right now at FastMail we just use the rfc 5257 annotation /vendor/messagingengine.com/preview, so we get a modseq change "for free" when we change it, it's just part of the data model.

Bron.

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