MBOX-Line: From murch at andrew.cmu.edu  Thu Aug 23 07:34:06 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Ken Murchison <murch@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:40 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Re: Private FETCH items
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Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Sounds to me as the patch author really wants a FETCH COOKIE instead of 
> MD5/FILESIZE, returning an opaque cookie which should be the same if the 
> same message is present in two mailboxes/servers and different otherwise.

Correct.


> What does the GUID do?

Uniquely identifies a message so that if the same message is present in 
more than one mailbox, its contents only gets replicated once.


-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University

