Re: UID for IMAP Channel?

[Cyrus Daboo <daboo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

--On Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:48 AM -0700 Lyndon Nerenberg
<lyndon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|> When Notification scenarios are considered, it may be that the client
|> gets some indication about a specific message for which it then issues a
|> CHANNEL command (i.e, the client did not necessarily received all
|> sequence numbers in the mailbox before issuing the CHANNEL command, so
|> it can't map between UID and sequence number). 
| 
| When would a client issue a CHANNEL request when it did not know the
| sequence number of the message in question?

It seems to me perfectly reasonable for a disconnected client to use
channel. A user may 'queue up' channel requests whilst in disconnected mode
and then play those back to the server when connecting. Obviously UIDs have
to be used to ensure proper synchronisation in that case.

Also, given that every other command that manages message data has a UID
equivalent (for the same reason) I think it only right that CHANNEL have it
too. I can't see any reason why this would be an extra burden on the
server, either.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo