Extra Header field

Joon Radley joon at radleys.co.za
Tue Jul 13 10:29:45 CEST 2004


Hi Bo,

> Martin, there is no way in hell it can ever work to use the 
> IMAP UID as the event/contact/... ID.
> 
> Stuart, I agree with David, that if it helps speed up things 
> for you, then we will put the event UID in the subject. Joon, 
> is that okay with you? I have thought quite a lot about 
> whether it makes sense to show something usable in the 
> subject, and I always came to the conclusion that for 
> debugging it's useful and for everything else it doesn't matter.
> 
> Steffen and I thought a lot about doing this back in the 
> kroupware days, but never solved the problem (because it's 
> impossible to introduce later). In the current resources I've 
> worked on, I have added a dictionary that provides event ID 
> to mail identification (KMail calls this identification 
> serial numbers). Having the UID in the subject would help 
> when the server synchronization updates a mail with one of 
> our events though.

Not the subject. Lets project the UID of the object to a X-KOLAB-UID header.
This header describes exactly what it is used for. Using the subject is a
bit of a hack. :-)

Before we start the next great thread ... The header must be mandatory else
the model falls apart.

Best regards

Joon Radley
Radley Network Technologies CC
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E-mail: joon at radleys.co.za




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