*IMPORTANT* - bugfix sync_append_commit index breakage

[David Carter]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Bron Gondwana wrote:

> On a more structural note - it would be great to re-factor the lower
> level APIs (mailbox.c, mboxlist.c, etc) to provide everything that
> sync_server needs manipulate their data structures and remove all the
> low level fiddling copy-and-pasted stuff from the sync layer.  This
> comes back a bit to David's comments today about the difficulty of
> having patches flying around - I suspect he copied and pasted so he
> wasn't throwing tentacles deep through the main codebase - but the
> end result is more brittle software and poor abstraction.

Pretty much. I wasn't expecting the replication code to ever get merged 
when I first wrote it. All of the really awful stuff should be in 
sync_commit.c. Those are the routines which create messages with 
predetermined UIDs and mailboxes with predetermined UniqueIDs.

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