- To: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Paging IMAP gurus
- From: Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 15:36:36 +1000
- User-agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14
<quote who="James Gray">
> Given that my IMAP store is maildir, is there any problem with simply
> deleting the messages straight from the maildir? Or is there some sort
> of referential integrity checking that I need to maintain within maildir?
No problems at all - and with Maildir, you can do it with a simple find(1).
The only thing it will impact is the IMAP server's folder caching, but your
IMAP server will grok the change and adapt.
- Jeff
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