MBOX-Line: From dave at cridland.net  Wed Mar 21 14:37:58 2012
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From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:48 2018
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On Wed Mar 21 20:46:00 2012, PA wrote:
> Fair enough. That said, in the selected state, that modulo is most  
> of the useful commands.

No, many clients use UID FETCH etc, which are different commands, and  
*can* have EXPUNGE sent during their execution.

EXISTS, on the other hand, can be sent even if there is no command in  
progress.

> Better late than never I guess. In any case, as mentioned  
> previously, this specific IMAP implementation is fronting a mail  
> archive, where utter most timeliness of updates is not an issue.
> 
> So NOOP is good enough for updates.
> 
> Thanks for the feedbacks though.

Take our personality test!

Do you:

a) Fail to understand.

b) Think you know IMAP better than several long-standing IMAP experts.

c) You think that somehow, your message store is magically different.

If you scored mostly (a), well done, you are honest. Now fix your  
server.

If you scored mostly (b), you are delusional. Now fix your server.

If you scored mostly (c), you are wrong. Now fix your server.

You will find that if you provide a mail archive over IMAP, a  
significant number of people - generally those with better IMAP  
clients, too - will start using it as the exclusive method of reading  
the mailing lists. I certainly would do. They will expect timely  
delivery - again, I certainly would - and will be relying upon normal  
IMAP semantics.

Dave.
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