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MBOX-Line: From mrc+imap at panda.com Fri Jun 11 18:44:49 2010
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: Mark Crispin <mrc+imap@panda.com>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:44 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP MOVE extension
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In-Reply-To: <201006120306.47168.witold.krecicki@firma.o2.pl>
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References: <201006110854.37969.witold.krecicki@firma.o2.pl>
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<201006120251.24779.witold.krecicki@firma.o2.pl>
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<alpine.OSX.2.00.1006111752580.662@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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<201006120306.47168.witold.krecicki@firma.o2.pl>
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Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1006111807350.662@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Witold Kr?cicki wrote:
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> You are silently assuming that all of pine/alpine users were using IMAP.
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> I was using pine, then alpine myself but I have never used IMAP in it,
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> only local mailboxes.
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After the early 1990s, the many tens of thousands of users at UW were all
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IMAP users, not local file users. Nor was UW the only institution which
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configured its email infrastructure in that way.
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Furthermore, you are making a false dichotomy.
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The same engine (literally) used by Pine for local mailboxes was also in
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the UW IMAP server. There was no difference in Pine between a local
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mailbox operation and an IMAP operation in the user interface. The Pine
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user interface did not even know whether it was IMAP or POP or NNTP or
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local. In that implementation, IMAP was nothing more than an RPC between
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the two instances of the engines.
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Everything in Pine used the delete/expunge model with undelete. I can
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also assure you that the save command (which did the "move" operation) was
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a copy+delete+expunge, including with Maildir type stores. I should know.
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I wrote that code.
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We have heard that you want a MOVE command. You apparently are not
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particularly concerned that it is unimplementable on some servers; nor
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that on many others the resulting state of both source and destination
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mailbox in the event of a failure is indeterminate.
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If you don't have any further technical details (as opposed to simply
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being argumentative) to add, then please stop wasting any more time.
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-- Mark --
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http://panda.com/mrc
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Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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