MBOX-Line: From janssen at parc.com  Mon Mar 12 17:41:40 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:38 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] how long can APPEND take? 
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> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Bill Janssen wrote:
> >> If you're going to replace the message, change its UID as well.
> > I think I only need to do this if the underlying changes are visible
> > through the IMAP protocol.  The only real difference is that they
> > would be returned by BODY or TEXT searches that previously didn't
> 
> I fail utterly to resolve your first sentence with the second.  Put 
> another way, what you describe in your second sentence sure sounds like a 
> "change visible through the IMAP protocol".

I was thinking that the message looked the same -- it remains static,
as far as the protocol can see.  Same content, same UID.  The change
is to the mailbox.

Bill

