MBOX-Line: From mrc+uw at panda.com  Sat Jul 11 23:25:17 2009
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <mrc+uw@panda.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:42 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] copy to same mailbox
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On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Do other servers prohibit COPY to the selected mailbox?
> Dovecot with mbox format doesn't allow it, because it caused it to crash and 
> I never bothered to fix it. What's the point of doing that anyway?

UW thought that it was important for some reason that I was never able to 
fathom.  The requirement to make that work is a primary reason why UW IMAP 
sucks so badly on Solaris and other SVR4 systems.

It doesn't matter with the new server that I wrote for MA (completely 
different filesystem technology), so it's mostly of academic interest to 
me now.

-- Mark --

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