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Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped...
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped... |
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Sat, 10 Feb 2018 00:48:59 -0500 |
>I don't know IMAP, but is there an IMAP server out there that will be
>happy when I overwrite a hunk of ~/mail/inbox/42 in place? IMAP's a
>textual protocol so we'd be switching one lot of text parsing in scan
>for another. Would pick(1), when talking to `our' IMAP implementation,
>make use of extensions to the protocol to save it effort, and fallback
>if it's vanilla IMAP?
Good question!
In short:
- Messages in IMAP are immutable, so if you overwrite ~/mail/inbox/42, in
theory you should get a new UID for that message. But maybe our "internal"
IMAP implementation wouldn't care. I do wonder how UW-IMAP deals with
that, since it claims to be able to serve up MH folders via IMAP
- The grammar for IMAP is well-defined and pretty compact; I believe you'd
be able to minimize the client/server I/O. I don't think a parser would
be terrible for it.
- AFAICT, pick(1) is implementable completely via the "vanilla" IMAP
protocol, but if I'm wrong I'd be interested in knowing about it.
--Ken
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Ken Hornstein, 2018/02/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Ralph Corderoy, 2018/02/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Paul Vixie, 2018/02/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., David Levine, 2018/02/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Ralph Corderoy, 2018/02/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Bakul Shah, 2018/02/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Ken Hornstein, 2018/02/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Ralph Corderoy, 2018/02/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Ken Hornstein, 2018/02/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Ralph Corderoy, 2018/02/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped...,
Ken Hornstein <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Paul Vixie, 2018/02/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Paul Vixie, 2018/02/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Ralph Corderoy, 2018/02/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Bakul Shah, 2018/02/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Ralph Corderoy, 2018/02/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Paul Vixie, 2018/02/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Bakul Shah, 2018/02/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Ralph Corderoy, 2018/02/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Bakul Shah, 2018/02/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped..., Ralph Corderoy, 2018/02/11