Api for seen state, perl preferred

[Bron Gondwana]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:34:52AM -0400, Adam Tauno WIlliams wrote:
> Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place; but on my test server
> (cyrus-imapd-2.3.11) my cyrus.header looks like -
> 
> estate1:/var/spool/imap/user/awilliam # cat cyrus.header 
> Cyrus mailbox header
> "The best thing about this system was that it had lots of goals."
> 	--Jim Morris on Andrew
> 	46a0a0b041114dce
> Junk $Label1 $Label2 $Label3 $Label4 $Label5 $MDNSent NotJunk
> receipt-handled $has_cal 
> awilliam	lrswipcda	
> 
> Is "46a0a0b041114dce" the id?

Yeah, just means you have no quota root.  That's the ID.
 
> > [brong at imap3 hm]$ /usr/cyrus/bin/cyr_dbtool -C /etc/imapd-slot308-master.conf /mnt/meta8/slot308/store23/conf/user/b/brong.seen skiplist get 6af857f64475158a
> > 1 1242810803 386716 1242800567 1:386615
> > Looks like I've seen all my email!  Also notice 4 other
> > fields at the start:
> > <version> <lastread> <lastuid> <lastchange> <seen_items>
> 
> <lastchange> is an epoch time stamp?

Yes.

> I'm not clear on what <lastuid> is; looks like it is a message id?  What
> operation sets/updates the <lastuid> value?  

It's a UID.

> > Here's a more interesting couple of folders to give you an idea
> > of what ranges look like:
> > 798b2df94146a5fe        1 1095746485 1526 1095740252 1:559,561:772,774:920,922:1109,1111:1115,1117:1138,1140:1170,1172:1195,1197:1521
> > 798b2df941576261        1 1125837870 34307 1123831223 1:28289,29118,30871,31887,31935,32058,32209:32210,32214:32219,32222,32228
> > So - in summary.  It's not easy.  Some plumbing required...
> > (lastuid gives you "\Recent" as per the IMAP flag - anything
> > newer than that is recent!)
> 
> So any message with $id > $lastuid is "recent".

$uid.  Please don't get confused between the two.  It's an
important distinction.  Everything is in UIDs internally.

Bron.