Re: [Evolution] Would this have side effects ?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 11:03 -0700, Zan Lynx wrote:
> ...
> > came first and deleted the message from the server. Then the second
> > one got an error, because it tried to retrieve a message that was
> > no longer there. In evolution (when being the second one), I got an
> > error message
> > "Cannot get message...".
> One of the clients deleted (and expunged I assume) the message?
> This "problem" falls into the set of "problems" that are user error.
> OBVIOUSLY, if an email message is deleted then it is gone. The
> question then would be why one of your clients is configured to do
> that?

Agree, that problem is only going to regularly beset a configuration
that doesn't make sense.

A mail store, like any concurrently accessibly database, is going to
"suffer" from last-writer-wins, and such behavior falls under the same
concept.

Deleted is deleted; nothing is at fault.

> Or use a local Maildir. Although I remember a few bugs with
> Evolution and simultaneous Maildir access, it has been a long time
> and I assume they were fixed. 

I suppose more that they are unfixable;  if someone wants sane
concurrent access -> use a server, in this case IMAP.  Modern IMAP
servers are pretty darn robust [Dovecot, Cyrus, etc...]  An error when
unable to retrieve a message that was in the most recent /LIST is
reasonable - that's a real problem.

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