On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 10:22 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: > On 9/3/2014 5:45 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: > > I've never heard of a problem of IMAP duplicating emails and, knowing > > how the protocol works, I can't see how it can! > > The protocol won't, but servers and clients will. > > I've had Thunderbird (old version, now fixed) time out while copying > large numbers of email messages from one folder to another. This > resulted in copies of the message in both folders, because it didn't > delete the messages until the copy was complete. > > I've also had the server lose delete flags on abnormal client shutdown, > which means that messages copied to another folder get resurrected, > resulting in two. And when the filter runs again on next client startup, > more copies are created. > > So yeah, IMAP can make copies happen.
No, IMAP can't - there's nothing in the protocol specification that would lead to a duplication of emails. The implementation of the protocol is a different matter - in fact the problems you mention are totally protocol independent. Bad things can happen when using IMAP but they aren't necessarily IMAP's fault. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
