looking for Cyrus mail format documentation

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Phil Howard wrote:

> Does the RFC say that the IMAP UIDs have to be the file name?

No, of course not.

> Do the IMAP UIDs have to be the same between different sessions?

They cannot change without also chanigng the UIDVALIDITY of the mailbox,
which is an expensive operation for disconnected clients (it forces them
to resync)

So yes, every time you need to resync, you can increment the uidvalidity,
but your disconnected users are going to hate you for it, and this isn't a
tremendously good solution for the real world (where temporary outages
between distant nodes is the norm).

-Rob

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