[4065] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Minutes of 2003-11-05 release team meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu Nov 6 11:06:36 2003
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:06:31 -0500
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 19:51, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 19:47, Robert A Basch wrote:
> > So, there would potentially be a problem whenever the mailbox
> > is expunged subsequent to the user getting a message sequence
> > list.
>
> I would say that for user operations, this isn't an issue, since mailbox
> expunges are generally user-initiated. For scripts, using uids would be
> most appropriate. So, perhaps the default should show sequence numbers,
> and there should be a flag to use uids instead.
OK; that was actually my initial thought. But I was worried that
it would be too easy to fall into a trap of doing something like
"maildel --expunge 1", "maildel --expunge 2", etc. Maybe adding
a separate expunge command is the way to go.
Bob
