Two accounts, one maildir.

[Johannes Stezenbach]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 02:52:47PM +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> 
> It is a good question. Let us assume you have 2 accounts for:
>  A1: Imap1 <-> Maildir1
>  A2: Imap2 <-> Maildir1
> 
> Assume there is one mail on each IMAP account:
> M1 on IMAP1 has UID1
> M2 on IMAP2 has UID2
> 
> Lets sync:
> 
> +-------+---------+-------+----------------+----------------+
> | IMAP1 | Maildir | IMAP2 | LocalStatus A1 | LocalStatus A2 |
> +-------+---------+-------+----------------+----------------+
> | UID1  |         | UID2  |                |                |1
> +-------+---------+-------+----------------+----------------+
> | UID1  |  UID1   | UID2  | UID1           |                |2
> +-------+---------+-------+----------------+----------------+
> | UID1  |  UID1   | UID2  | UID1           | UID2           |3
> |       |  UID2   |       |                |                | 
> +-------+---------+-------+----------------+----------------+
> Step 1: Initial situation
> Step 2: Sync A1: M1 with UID1 gets transferred to Maildir 
> Step 3: Sync A2: M2 with UID2 gets transferred to Maildir

Actually M1 will be also synced to IMAP2 in this step.

However, I have no idea what happens if you have two different
mails in IMAP1 and IMAP2 which have the same UID.  Potentially
one overwrites the other...


Johannes