On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 12:56:09AM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 03:24:29PM -0800, brian moore wrote:
> >
> > 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!
And they're not guaranteed to be unique, either, unless the state is
saved (which is what that first message is for).
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