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[Stuart K. Bingë]

On Monday, 12 July 2004 17:00, Martin Konold wrote:
> > Due to the discontinuity of web-based applications this process entails
> > two IMAP passes for me - on the second run I do however know the UID of
> > the object that needs to be loaded, and it would really be ideal to just
> > do an IMAP search with SUBJECT "uid" to quickly find the appropriate
> > email.
>
> No, I don't like this as it puts a lot of load on the server and therefore
> limits scalabilty.

Excuse me? Please explain how, while searching for a specific message, loading 
and parsing the contents of every message in a mailbox puts *less* load on 
the server than a SEARCH & FETCH command sequence?

> Why don't you use the IMAP UID instead?

Because it is not constant across object modification.

> BTW: Does your code have any race conditions with regards to the double
> parsing?

No more than any other client, as in it would only occur when two separate 
people are modifying the same message at the same time, at which point it's 
the old "whoever saves first, wins" scenario.

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