[Kde-pim] Data loss: kmail2 must not use existing [Folder-xy] settings on random new folders

[Georg C. F. Greve]

On Tuesday 13 December 2011 10.32:55 Sven Burmeister wrote:
> Use only IDs to communicate with clients that are "guaranteed" to be unique 
> for akonadi and the client, i.e. rely on chance of re-occurrence like
> message-IDs.

As far as I understood the necessity for Akonadi IDs, the idea was that some 
resources do not have unique ids themselves. 

I am not sure this is ever true for email, though.

IMAP: Unique IDs on the server
MAILDIR: Unique path names on disk
MBOX: Unique path name + Message ID

Not sure that other resources don't have some form of ID -- after all, how 
does that data storage/provide differentiate its own records otherwise?

So I've been wondering why we aren't using those "per resource unique ids" in 
combination with a resource identifier to provide robust unique IDs that are in 
fact robust also against a database reset/removal.

Or am I missing something vital (which is entirely possible)?

Best regards,
Georg


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