Re: Automatically authenticating at local imap server

[David]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> D> Yes, I guess the best way would be to first check the registry for the
> D> group and do the additional mairix search only if the registry is not
> D> loaded or does not know the location of the message. I don't want to
> D> rely solely on the registry though, because of the limitations you
> D> describe: [...]
>
> Cool.  Also note the group could be wrong, e.g. someone modified a
> Maildir spool externally and the registry doesn't know.  So it's a bit
> like asking a random person for directions: very nice when it works but
> don't rely on it :)

When the user notices that the registry is wrong he will be able revert
to the file path method by calling the function with a prefix.

I also noticed that when the same message is in two different groups the
registry will only return the group where it first saw it, right? I
guess it would be quite difficult to extend the registry in a way so
that it can return all groups where a message exists?

-David