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From: lists+sup@protozoic.com (Tim Gray)
Subject: [sup-talk] problems with Maildir and IMAP offline
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:28:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090714152806.GC393@d228.scdc1.swarthmore.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247584002-sup-504@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca>

On Tue 14, Jul'09 at 11:07 AM -0400, Ben Walton wrote:
> It's something I'd like too (not to play nice with other clients, but
> because it's "just better").

This sound like a good thing.  In my experience, 'just better' usually 
equals 'playing nice', since 'playing nice' usually equals following the 
standards.  That's how Maildirs are supposed to work - if everybody followed 
the spec, we'd be set.

Though I don't program for a living, nor do I know any Ruby, it seems like a 
doable thing.  Is there something fundamental blocking per-message sync-back 
of status as you read/delete/otherwise modify your mail?  I would assume 
there a reference to the original message location in a message's database 
entry.  If a message gets read, write an S at the end of the filename and 
move it to /cur.  If it gets deleted, delete it.  Operations on a message 
should affect the database and the mail store at the same time.  Why is 
something like sup-sync-back even necessary?

Anyway, these are just the musings of someone who doesn't have the tools to 
write something like sup, so I'll be quiet now before I embarrass myself any 
further.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-14 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-13 21:20 Luis Cañas Díaz
2009-07-14 13:24 ` Andrei Thorp
     [not found]   ` <20090714134544.GD90157@d228.scdc1.swarthmore.edu>
2009-07-14 14:02     ` Andrei Thorp
2009-07-14 15:00       ` Tim Gray
2009-07-14 15:07         ` Ben Walton
2009-07-14 15:28           ` Tim Gray [this message]
2009-07-14 15:39             ` Andrei Thorp
2009-07-14 15:59               ` Tim Gray
2009-07-14 15:14         ` Andrei Thorp
2009-07-14 15:45           ` Tim Gray
2009-07-14 16:21 ` Israel Herraiz

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