Re: [Imap-protocol] Gmail flags issue, timing-sensitive

Arnt Gulbrandsen <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Mar 2015 23:26:48 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael M Slusarz answers me:
> It sounds like people are agreeing that:
>
> a001 SOME COMMAND
> * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Foo) MODSEQ (2) UID 1)
> [snapshot 1]
> * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Foo \Bar) MODSEQ (2) UID 1)
> [snapshot 2]
> a001 OK
> [snapshot 3]
>
> ...means that the flags on message 1 supposedly "changed" 
> twice.

No. The MODSEQ clause quite plainly says it changed once. The FLAGS clause 
says twice. The two parts contradict each other.

> ... I 
> don't care about ...

The server has to send coherent protocol precisely so that clients can take 
liberties and don't have to care about everything all the time.

Arnt

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