28 May
2004
28 May
'04
3:06 p.m.
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:55:03PM +0400, Oleg I. Vdovikin wrote:
- major: a UID that any client may have seen _MUST NOT_ change.
Right.This means that a formatting string MUST ONLY have an impact on newly arriving mail. No, there is no need to store the exact formatting string with each message.
He did not say that the formatting string is stored with each message; but there is a requirement that the *UID string* is stored with each message.
i.e. changing the format string does not change the UIDs of existing messages; or put another way, the format string is only applied the first time that a new message is seen.
Given that, you could apply *any* UID to messages when you import them, and the format string will only affect subsequently-delivered messages.