[Dovecot] New index / mailbox API

DINH Viet Hoa dinh.viet.hoa at free.fr
Sun Nov 23 01:22:42 EET 2003


Timo Sirainen wrote :

> with maildir that would be
> the filename and with mbox it would be current offset in file.

Is it a good idea to use the current offset of a message in a file since 
there are (several) programs that rewrite entirely mailboxes ?
I find it rather dirty to do this.

In UW-IMAP, an UID is added into the message headers.

-- 
DINH V. Hoa,

"Tu as lu combien de bandes dessinées ce mois-ci ? 13 Go"
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