MBOX-Line: From lyndon at orthanc.ca  Mon Jun 14 10:48:14 2010
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:44 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP MOVE extension
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> Single instance message stores existed in the 1980s.  IMAP's architecture
> was influenced by these; hence the rule that messages are immutable.

I was talking about IMAP specifically. There were indeed many 
implementations before IMAP. (MH immediately comes to mind).

--lyndon

