What's the message's UID in the message storage of cyrus imapd.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> In the document of cyrus imapd package, there are something describe
> the message files in the message storage. 
> message files 
>         There is one file per message, containing the message in RFC
>         822 format. Lines in the message are separated by CRLF, not
>         just LF. The file name of each message is the message's UID
>         followed by a dot (.).  
> I have googled for a while, but have got anything useful to explain
> what is the message's UID.

A unique id;  it appears to pretty much be a sequence number.  It has no
significance or relevance except as the id of the message AFAIK.

> Could someone pick me up?


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