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MBOX-Line: From dw at thedave.ca Wed Sep 9 19:45:39 2020
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: Dave Warren <dw@thedave.ca>
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Date: Wed Sep 9 19:46:07 2020
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] Any valid use case for COPY besides moving
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messages?
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In-Reply-To: <CAPacwgy_1WJd5TLRDbykTnzfwv9hgcTLzBQZte5=bMRK-RUFLQ@mail.gmail.com>
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References: <CAPacwgy_1WJd5TLRDbykTnzfwv9hgcTLzBQZte5=bMRK-RUFLQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <e4a7a54e-9b62-e245-6aff-9f21697fd03c@thedave.ca>
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On 2020-09-09 01:27, Andris Reinman wrote:
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> As the subject states, is there actually any valid use case these days
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> for COPY to just copy messages instead of being a poor substitute for
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> MOVE (that is COPY+EXPUNGE)?
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The use case is copying a message, rather than moving it.
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I admit many/most users just move messages and in fact some mail
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interfaces don't have an easy copy button, some omit it completely. If
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you control the interface and want to drop the copy button, I wouldn't
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be thrilled but I could accept it. But I believe you're talking about
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silently and unexpectedly deleting a user's email.
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I will sometimes copy a bunch of messages into a temporary folder for a
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specific purpose. Perhaps they're related to something I am working on
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but not part of a single thread (or selected parts of a much larger
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thread), perhaps they're all requiring action/attention, maybe I'm going
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to share that folder. But I *always* want the original content sorted in
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the longterm place they live and I'll nuke that temporary folder once
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I'm done with it. And admittedly this is not something I do especially
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frequently either.
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If my messages were silently discarded from their original folder, I
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would be both logging it as a defect and very quickly switching to a
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email service that doesn't lose email unexpectedly.
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(Full disclosure: $DAYJOB has a product that only stores a single
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instance of a message within a mailbox -- But there is no risk because
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there is no copy action that fails silently, it simply doesn't exist,
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and nothing other than an obvious "X" delete button will delete a message).
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