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

[Simon Matter]

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <
> awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > For instance, if i have two subfolder in the INBOX. Is it possible
>> > that the same UID of message appeared in both of the two folders.
>> > In another word, the sequence number based on folder or mail account?
>>
>> Folder,  a believe the uniqueness of the UID is to the folder scope.
>>
>> I remember once seeing something about the ability to generate UUIDs
>> [was that Cyrus or something else?] but I don't know how to turn that
>> on/off.
>>
>> > I wanna do some archiving operations on the filesystem level.
>>
>> Ugh, I'd advise against it.  Why not do them on the 'protocol' level?
>> That certainly makes the archives easier to use.
>
>
> Thanks very much for your advice. If this task could handled in the
> protocol
> level. That should be great.
>
> Here are what i wanna do:
> Some mail clients has the feature to archive the messages by date. For
> instance, they could create a mail folder named by the month such as
> 2009-08
> each month.
> I wanna do this operation on the server side. So i have to created the
> folder then find all the message in this month then move all of them to
> the
> new folder.
>
> But i am not sure the protocol operations if i don't know the password of
> every account. If i wanna do this via Perl, do you have some good idea?

Check out the "proxyservers" option in imapd.conf. You can define users
and groups that are allowed to  proxy  for  other users. I think that's
exactly what you need.

Regards,
Simon