From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan) Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:55:38 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] on sup In-Reply-To: <1188977552-sup-60@tatooine> References: <1188557360-sup-7369@bryma> <1188573751-sup-6067@south> <20070831171234.GD8312@die.therning.org> <1188773706-sup-1502@south> <1188977552-sup-60@tatooine> Message-ID: <1189029109-sup-7643@south> Excerpts from Magnus Therning's message of Wed Sep 05 00:48:03 -0700 2007: > > Yeah, Sup doesn't sync back any state changes to the original > > sources. The Sup philosophy has been to treat the sources as dumb, > > which means Sup doesn't play well with others. I won't turn aside > > patches which do sync back (partial) message state to the sources, > > but I'm not planning on implementing that stuff myself. > > I'll see if I can't get my head around this red-corundum language > you're using and take a stab at adding this. ;-) What little Sup currently does in the way of pushing state information back into sources, it does through sup-sync-back, which is meant to push a batch of state changes back to one or more sources in one go. Right now that's restricted to deleting messages marked as deleted or spam from mbox sources, but it would be the natural place to push the new/read state back as well, at least if you were happy with batch operation. -- William