Is atomic MOVING of messages between IMAP folders possible?

2014-08-04 Thread Greg Sullivan
I would like to use a shared IMAP account, with multiple users accessing it simultaneously. The users would take ownership of messages by first attempting to MOVE the messages from the Inbox, into their private IMAP folder, still within the same account. Now, since there will be multiple users co

Re: Is atomic MOVING of messages between IMAP folders possible?

2014-08-04 Thread Greg Sullivan
; On 04 Aug 2014, at 10:44, Greg Sullivan > wrote: > > > >> I would like to use a shared IMAP account, with multiple users > accessing it > >> simultaneously. The users would take ownership of messages by first > >> attempting to MOVE the messages from the

Re: Is atomic MOVING of messages between IMAP folders possible?

2014-08-05 Thread Greg Sullivan
d ask for entire conversation moves to be atomic as well. (which is really what I want) Looks like a bloatware - sorry - helpdesk system - is what I will need to use. Greg. On 4 August 2014 22:44, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 04 Aug 2014, at 14:12, Greg Sullivan > wrote: > > >

Re: Is atomic MOVING of messages between IMAP folders possible?

2014-08-05 Thread Greg Sullivan
ugh if by atomicity you mean that you simply want to make sure > that the same source mail can't be MOVEd twice, that would be doable with > some work I think. Even for full conversations (without partial failures). > > On 05 Aug 2014, at 13:19, Greg Sullivan > wrote: >

Re: Re: Is atomic MOVING of messages between IMAP folders possible?

2014-08-06 Thread Greg Sullivan
; On -10.01.-28163 20:59, Greg Sullivan wrote: > > I must say I am extremely disappointed that intra-account moves are not > > atomic. As far as I can tell, IMAP was designed to allow shared access, > so > > in my opinion this operation should be atomic. Heaven FORBID that I &