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Re: [Jmap] Hacker News Discussion - getMailboxes single data set vs tree primitives or paging

Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> Mon, 08 May 2017 14:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Jmap] Hacker News Discussion - getMailboxes single data set vs tree primitives or paging
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It's not clear that mailboxes really need to be hierarchical, and we've 
seen that the hierarchy stuff wasn't really well implemented by IMAP 
clients.

It seems plausible that polling the complete list oftenish is unacceptable 
for at least some users, but an IMAP-like hierarchy is not the only way to 
cut bandwidth usage. Retrieving it once and then asking for updates would 
work too, like JMAP's in-mailbox updates.

Servers that don't have a global modseq or some other generation counter 
would have to fall back to sending all/many mailboxes.

Arnt

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