Re: OfflineIMAP & UW IMAPd

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> OfflineIMAP has a section about its problem with IMAP server 
> that does not keep UID persistent between sessions, such as UW 
> IMAPd, as explained here: 
> http://lists.complete.org/offlineimap@xxxxxxxxxxxx/2003/04/msg00012.html.gz
> 
> Is this still a problem between current version of OfflineIMAP 
> and latest version of UW IMAPd? Is there any work around?

That question rests entirely in the UW IMAPd camp; if they preserve UIDs
now, then OfflineIMAP will work better with it now.

> It also make me curious how OfflineIMAP use UID for 
> synchronization; does it keep a mapping between UID in the first 
> repository and UID in the second repository for each message?

Yes, exactly.  That eliminates any guesswork as to which messages
corresponds with which.

-- John

> 
> Thanks!
>