On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 03:24:29PM -0800, brian moore wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 06:00:28PM -0500, Soren Harward wrote:
> > On Tue 02 Feb 1999 at 23:21:20, Peter van Dijk muttered:
> > > On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 02:46:10PM -0500, Soren Harward wrote:
> > > > I use both Mutt and IMP (a webmail program) to read my mail, and the
> > > > "Internal Mail Data" messages that the imap server keeps leaving in my
> > > > mailboxes are getting annoying. Is there a way to tell Mutt to
> > > > ignore them?
> > >
> > > Why not configure the imap server not to insert them?
> >
> > Hmm, I would if I knew how.
>
> They're needed for IMAP (as long as you use mbox folders anyway) in that
> they retain crucial state about your mailbox.
>
> The most obvious of which is the 'UIDVALIDITY' values: each item in your
> mailbox is assigned a specific Unique Identifier that IMAP guarantees to
> be monotonically increasing. This is crucial for stateless uses such as
> web based email. Do you really want to blindly delete the 7th item in
> your box, or would you rather delete an item with a unique ID?
Hmm.. POP3 has UIDL, and it stores nothing for that!
Greetz, Peter.
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