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To: offlineimap@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "Jean-Yves Avenard" <jyavenard@xxxxxxxxx>, "Joel Mawhorter" <joel-lists-rw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: offlineimap's handling of moving message
From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:37:31 -0600 
On Thursday 27 December 2007 5:08:58 am Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> Let me jump in the discussion too here and raise an issue with how
> offlineimap will generate X-Header in the message.
>
> offlineimap generates a different X-header for each message. This can
> lead to big issues when working with an IMAP server like Microsoft
> Exchange. Exchange will allocate a unique ID for each X-header it has
> detected. There is a maximum number of 65355 property ID.
>
> offlineimap could use a unique X-Header for each message but with a
> different property.
>
> There is no need to put the unique ID within the X-Header definition.
>
> Does anyone knows why such design implementation was chosen?

Ironically enough, I seem to recall it was due to problems with Exchange...

>
> Thanks
> Jean-Yves
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