MBOX-Line: From mrc+imap at panda.com  Fri Jun 18 02:32:29 2010
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <mrc+imap@panda.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:44 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] MSN Ranges
In-Reply-To: <D3641D9F-B183-4805-9C28-544CFC1BC16C@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com>
References: <D3641D9F-B183-4805-9C28-544CFC1BC16C@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1006180204060.662@hsinghsing.panda.com>

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
> While following the intriguing discussion on Move, it was pointed out
> that MSNs are a nuisance.

Not to the clients that depend upon them.

> I want to ask those who probably know more, how many clients actually
> endeavour to optimise operations by computing MSN ranges, and using
> range semantics in IMAP when users perform operations on multiple
> consecutive messages?  In my experience it seems to be none of them.

Without thinking very hard, I can come up with at least 7 clients that use
MSNs exclusively, and another 5 that use both MSNs and UIDs.

End of discussion.

-- Mark --

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