Re: RFC mailbox interface

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

Em Qui, 22 Nov 2001 08:33:28 Pawel Salek escreveu:
> 
> On 2001.11.21 21:33 M . Thielker wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
> 
> 
> There are a number of situations when shadowing is just a waste of space 
> and bandwidth and enforcing it always would be a mistake. Imagine you have 
> a mailbox that you look at the headers only (say, auction subscription 
> list, or similar), removing messages without looking at them when the 
> subject seems uninteresting. Shadowing such a mailbox would be a mistake.
> 
> I think if the library is designed to provide client-side caching, it is 
> fine. If it only does its primary job of standard-compliant communication 
> with the server, fetching, storing and searching data, it is fine, too.
> 

Something just poped into my mind. this whole thing just screams
"IMAP PROXY". yes, removing all that crap from the MUA and putting it where 
it belongs, squid/imap anyone ?

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