Re: my 2 cents worth

John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@cmu.edu> Tue, 07 June 1994 22:40 UTC

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Beak: is Not

I also see no advantage to encoding the uid's in base64.  I would see
an advantage to limiting their length, but on the other hand it is
useful for servers to be able to use the contents of the Message-ID:
header when it is assured such a header will exist.

My server currently works as follows:

C: UIDL
S: +OK unique-id listing follows
S: 1 350
S: 2 351
S: 3 354
S: 4 356
S: 5 357
S: .

I happen to have these handy IMAP4 UID's lying around in the
database...

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