On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 14:32 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Or if you want flags for messages you haven't even seen yet, > > 1:4294967295 should work too. > > 1:4294967295 doesn't really fill me with joy either -- that assumes that > a UID is limited to 32 bits unsigned...
It is, as defined by RFC 3501. > and that other servers won't > fall over when presented with that number. Well, those servers would also be broken then.. I think servers can typically handle such UID better than clients (many clients use signed 32bit ints). I think there's a good chance it would work fine with all servers that support QRESYNC.
