Re: [Imap-protocol] Is server re-use of UID OK?

On 2017-10-09 14:41, Gene Smith wrote:
> Yes, in the mbox where the message was deleted, its UID is still present 
> but with the \deleted flag set. The same message but with a different 
> UID is in Trash. When I try to copy it back to the original mbox from 
> Trash, the server indicates that it is copying it to the original UID 
> (not >= UIDNEXT). The main problem I see is that this copy doesn't clear 
> the \deleted flag for the UID in the original folder so the message 
> remain invisible in the client.

I think it might reduce confusion if we stop saying "Message was 
deleted". "Deleted" doesn't have a clear definition in this context 
because it isn't really a thing in IMAP (although it is how IMAP clients 
present multiple different behaviours to users). At the protocol level, 
you can set the \Deleted flag or you can EXPUNGE.

Since a \Deleted flag can be trivially removed, there is no "reuse" of a 
UID, the UID was still being reused and the COPY was just returning an 
accurate (if unusual) result. Expunging and then reusing the UID 
(assuming an unchanged UIDVALIDITY) would be a very significant problem 
with regards to clients maintaining the validity of their caches, but 
simply changing a flag is perfectly valid.

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