More IMAP Annotations (folder display name and translations)
Martin Konold
martin.konold at erfrakon.de
Sun Sep 25 19:51:07 CEST 2005
Am Mittwoch 21 September 2005 15:44 schrieb David Faure:
Hi David, Berhard and Johannes,
> What happens on renaming?
In short: "Renaming a shared imap folder is bad."
In long: A primary reason why IMAP works so well for incoherent concurrent
access and off-line mode is the fact that messages never get modified on the
server. The IMAP protocol enforced the creation of a new message and the
deletion of the old message instead.
From a semantical point of view a rename of an imap folder is equivalent to a
modify and leads to _numerious_ problems independent of translations and
such.
Simply imagine two users create new messages in a shared imap folder and user
1 renames the folder. How shall the "sync" of user 2 succeed?
Funny enough the separation of display name from the folder name on the server
can be a valid remedy for Kolab clients.
> And I wouldn't put anything in the spec before Joon confirms whether it's
> OK with him... Outlook does have its limitations, as we all know.
I am waiting for Joon's opinion on this topic some more days.
Yours,
-- martin
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