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Subject:    [Imap-protocol] Re: [lemonade] Notifications for multiple devices
From:       Dave Cridland <dave () cridland ! net>
Date:       2006-06-21 15:05:59
Message-ID: 666.1150902364.794593 () peirce ! dave ! cridland ! net
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On Wed Jun 21 14:42:53 2006, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> --On June 21, 2006 2:34:09 PM +0100 Dave Cridland 
> <dave@cridland.net> wrote:
> 
>> The only mechanism I can see for providing that in client-side 
>> IMAP would
>> involve continuously searching all available mailboxes for messages
>> marked as \Deleted, and presenting the results as a locally 
>> generated
>> virtual mailbox, or else using a real mailbox as an artificial 
>> trash
>> mailbox, which has both interoperability and (lesser) efficiency 
>> problems.
> 
> But that is exactly what I am talking about as that's how clients 
> have already implemented it and that's what all the complaints 
> about interop have been about. I don't care about 'virtual' trash - 
> just about making the copy-to-Trash work (which for the most part 
> it does).

I could suggest a method for finding the name of the mailbox to use, 
I suppose, by using NAMESPACE, but that adds another extension. I 
don't like relying on extensions to handle cases like deletion. Most 
of the other problems are insoluble, and I'm not even sure that "for 
the most part it does" is true, unless you only use clients that do a 
compatible trash mailbox.

Of course, there are especially poor ways to do trash mailboxes, and 
I can add text to warn against them.

Dave.
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