Re: [Imap-protocol] Gmail IMAP and X-GM-MSGID

"Ali, Saqib" <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:43:22 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <CABDm0O8yWvawiMFpT+u6YjH9Eb=2MZbsmt6dqCB3+uU-F+2x_Q@mail.gmail.com>
Hello Christine,

As far as I know:
1) X-GM-MSGID is not unique.
2) It is possible.
3) No (as far as i know)

Can you tell us what you are planning to use the X-GM-MSGID for?

Are you using IMAP or Gmail REST API to access the Inbox?

Saqib
http://hivemined.net


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Christine Spang <[email protected]> wrote:

> I know that some of the Gmail IMAP devs are on this list, so might be a
> good place to ask a few questions about what assumptions one can make about
> X-GM-MSGID with Gmail IMAP.
>
> * Is X-GM-MSGID globally unique across all of Gmail? (I assume no, given
> sharding.)
> * Can the same message in different accounts have the same X-GM-MSGID?
> * Do X-GM-MSGID values associated with messages ever change? (Based on the
> Gmail API docs about messageId, seems not?)
>
> --Christine
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