MBOX-Line: From grschmidt at acm.org  Wed Sep  9 01:49:43 2020
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org>
Date: Wed Sep  9 01:50:13 2020
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Any valid use case for COPY besides moving
 messages?
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On 09/09/2020 17:27, Andris Reinman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As the subject states, is there actually any valid use case these days 
> for COPY to just copy messages instead of being a poor substitute for 
> MOVE (that is COPY+EXPUNGE)?
> 
I often copy bunches of email to other folders, to other users accounts, 
and to various archive accounts, after which the messages are *not* 
deleted, so I would say, "Yes, there are valid use cases for COPY doing 
*exactly* what the word says."

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)
