→ IMAP rant from sup developer
Pretty hilarious, you can tell someone was having a bad day:
“fucking imap fucking sucks. what the FUCK kind of committee of dunces designed this shit.
imap talks about ‘unique ids’ for messages, to be used for cross-session identification. great–just what sup needs! except it turns out the uids can be invalidated every time the ‘uidvalidity’ value changes on the server, and ‘uidvalidity’ can change without restriction. it can change any time you log in. it can change EVERY time you log in. of course the imap spec “strongly recommends” that it never change, but there’s nothing to stop people from just setting it to the current timestamp, and in fact that’s exactly what the one imap server i have at my disposal does. thus the so-called uids are absolutely useless and imap provides no cross-session way of uniquely identifying a message. but thanks for the “strong recommendation”, guys!”
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