[Imap-protocol] CONDSTORE mod-sequence values

[Bron Gondwana]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012, at 03:43 PM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:

> On 03/21/2012 02:01 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote:

> > But any non-MODSEQ based access to the store could not bump it at all,

> > so long as the next time a MODSEQ enabled client connected, the MODSEQ

> > got allocated to all changed things since then.

> 

> Now you have a 64-bit number which changes seldom and a single-bit

> variable per message which goes to one for any change and to zero for

> any modseq allocation. That does not make much sense to me.


No - it's pretty silly for sure.  But if you're writing a server which
serves a Maildir which may also be updated by local clients which are
totally IMAP unaware, you're basically restricted to noticing that
"the following things changed".

Bron.
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