[Evolution-hackers] Mozilla IMAP; what it does...



Out of curiosity to see what Mozilla's IMAP code does (and to see if I
could find a clue as to how they decide if a message has attachments or
not), I started it up and used ethereal to capture a packet log.

anyway... here's how it get the message-list info:

8 UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS)
9 UID fetch <uid set> (UID RFC822.SIZE FLAGS BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS
(From To Cc Subject Date Message-ID Priority X-Priority References
Newsgroups In-Reply-To)])

and then, after it gets all that... all messages that had a \Recent flag
set, it downloads (to mark as spam and such, possibly to cache them
too?)

anyways, interesting to note is that mozilla too only filters \Recent
mail.

-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.novell.com

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