MBOX-Line: From andris.reinman at gmail.com Mon Mar 20 11:41:39 2017 To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu From: Andris Reinman Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:55 2018 Subject: [Imap-protocol] What is the current consensus on the Recent flag? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Awesome, thanks for the feedback! If \Recent in practice only matters for the Dovecot ImapTest then I won't waste any time with it. The server I'm building is a distributed one (run many instances, connect to any of these (mailbox updates between server instances are propagated using a journal)) and ensuring \Recent to be seen by just a single session would mean some kind of extra locking and extra overhead for no gains whatsoever. Best regards, Andris Reinman http://wildduck.email/ On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Neil Jhaveri wrote: > I agree, and we aren?t using it in iOS/macOS Mail. We?ve thought about it > several times, though? but every time, the semantics proved to not be > reliable enough. > > On Mar 10, 2017, at 1:42 PM, Andris Reinman > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm building a new open source IMAP server (https://github.com/wildduck- > email/wildduck) and was wondering about the \Recent flag. Is it even > needed today? I would like to keep my server as standards compliant as > possible but the ephemeral nature of \Recent makes it a bit difficult to > sync between sessions in multiple hosts. It would be doable but the > complexity needed does not make it seem worth it. > > Is there even any major client using this flag in a sane way? I don't > think I have even ever encountered it outside the RFCs. > > Best regards, > Andris Reinman > _______________________________________________ > Imap-protocol mailing list > Imap-protocol@u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-protocol > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: