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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