# Re: (long) sketch of proposed imap: URL syntax and semantics

David L Miller (dlm@cac.washington.edu)
Wed, 6 Jul 1994 09:46:28 -0700 (PDT)

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    Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 09:46:28 -0700 (PDT)

    From: David L Miller <dlm@cac.washington.edu>

    To: "Steven D. Majewski" <sdm7g@elvis.med.virginia.edu>

    Subject: Re: (long) sketch of proposed imap: URL syntax and semantics

    In-Reply-To: <199407061403.AA14923@elvis.med.Virginia.EDU>

    Message-Id: <Pine.3.90.940706093712.18643H-100000@shiva1.cac.washington.edu>

On Wed, 6 Jul 1994, Steven D. Majewski wrote:

> On Jul 6, 8:44, Wallace Colyer wrote:
> >
> > > Sequence number and Message-id: *are* usually available and viewable.
> >
> >
> > I use Pine regularly and have my options set so that the mailbox is
> > reverse sorted at startup. The sequence numbers displayed start with
> > the most recent message in the mailbox. If I were to blindly follow
> > instructions for making a URL from these sequence numbers the wrong
> > message would come up consistantly.
> >
> > Clients do not consistantly show IMAP sequence numbers to users.
> >
>
> Good point.
>
> However, sequence numbers ARE available (even if some care must
> be taken to get then right), and UID's are not, and some servers
> do not yet support access by UID.
>

Wrong. Pine does _not_ display IMAP sequence numbers. It has an internal
mapping between the IMAP sequence number and the message number in the index.
This mapping *may* be 1-1, but it is very likely not to be.

--DLM

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