Re: Re: moving mail between folders is intermittently failing

On Wed, 5 May 2010, Paul Vixie wrote:
> damnably, and as you
> say, there'd have to be a lot of state to preserve the insanity of "message
> numbers".

IMAP is a stateful protocol.  There is nothing insane about message
numbers in a stateful message access protocol; this is the entire
mechanism upon which state revolves.

If you don't want state, then hack HTTP to export messages the way that it
already exports HTML documents.

> i regret that i am not part of an empire who can afford to hire you just to
> work on open source software.  brian reid of DEC WRL deserves huge thanks
> for hiring me and then letting me work on BIND after UCB abandoned it.  we
> need more empires in which people like yourself can hide while making stuff.

Sadly, such beneficent empires are few and far between these days.

I am being paid today to work on cool email stuff, but it's not open
source.

-- Mark --

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Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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