getting rid of X-Offlineimap header

Dan Christensen jdc at uwo.ca
Sat Jan 22 02:10:09 UTC 2011


Sebastian Spaeth <sebastian at sspaeth.de> writes:

> So, what we could do, is checking the imapobj.capabilities for "UIDPLUS"
> and if it contains that, we don't fudge headers but rely on the
> APPENDUID response.

Yes, please!  I brought this up in December too

  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.offlineimap.general/1968

and pointed out that the header is added even in cases where offlineimap
knows the UID.

My mail client finds it confusing that messages disappear and reappear
with a new UID.

> Am I missing something obvious here? Do we need that header for a
> different purpose too?

I don't think it is used for anything else.

Dan




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