Re[2]: getting UID of a message copied to another mailbox?

Mark Crispin <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:25:41 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.uw.c-client
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> Ah, thanks, this is indeed exactly what I needed and I've somehow failed
> to find it it while looking for a solution. Unfortunately in practice it
> doesn't help that much because IMAP servers without support for UIDPLUS
> seem to be quite widespread and I'm not sure if it's really user-friendly
> to tell the user "Message can't be undeleted because your server doesn't
> implement UIDPLUS". So I'll still need a fallback approach.

How about writing a proper IMAP client that uses the delete-expunge model
instead?

The world already has plenty of crappy clients that use the unnatural
Trash mailbox kludge.  Trash is a user interface artifact, not something
that should be inflicted upon the back end.

-- Mark --

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