Re: [imap5] Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP

[Jan Kundrát <[e-mail]>]

On 02/15/12 19:10, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> Along with \Recent, which is also magic - it's a read only value where
> EVERYTHING ELSE in the same space is writable (ACLs permitting), it's
> defined in a way that makes multi-session a pain.  It's a wart.

On the other hand, some people (you know, I keep telling myself that I
cannot possibly be alone in this) use the lack of \Seen to mean "I
should do something for this mail", which means that we have a lot of
"unread" messages in our mailboxes. Having a way of automatically
marking those messages which are *really* fresh arrivals is therefore
very convenient, and \Recent does exactly that.

Sure, we can use another flag for this, but having these flags managed
by the server means that no client has to ever touch it, and therefore
it will "just work" all the time. That's a pretty big benefit, IMHO.

(Yes, I typically run just a single instance of a MUA these days and lug
my laptop around -- that might explain why this works for me.)

Cheers,
Jan

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