MBOX-Line: From MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU  Mon Mar 12 17:50:54 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>
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.

A change to the behavior of SEARCH for that message is a change to that 
message.

-- Mark --

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