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List:       imap
Subject:    Re: UID after a COPY or APPEND?
From:       Chris Newman <Chris.Newman () Innosoft ! COM>
Date:       1997-02-12 8:26:14
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On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Barry Leiba wrote:
> Chris Newman says:
> > OPTIMIZE-1 would be difficult to implement with the VMSmail store that
> > Innosoft supports and would cause serious performance problems.  I
> > seriously doubt we will ever support it for that mailstore.  In short, it
> 
> Um... I should like to point out that the alternative is worse.  For a 
> client that needs the information (and, therefore, asks for it) the process 
> of getting it *without* the OPTIMIZE-1 extension (or the moral equivalent) 
> would cause a greater performance impact on the server than the 
> implementation of OPTIMIZE-1 would.

This is not necessarily the case.  It would be no easier for the
server to do it than the client, given the VMSmail API.  And the client
has to have the code anyway since it's a protocol option.

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