[Kde-pim] What is X-KMail-Identity header ?

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Monday 24 of March 2014 19:18:44 Martin Koller wrote:
> What is the mail header X-KMail-Identity used for ?

I *think* it's ID of the KMail Identity from which the message was sent.

> I'm thinking how I can solve the item removal problems we have in the mbox
> resource and I think a way would be to be able to identify each single
> message in a unique way (as the current way for the remote ids by using the
> position inside the file is very bad, as all remoteIds must be changed
> whenever an item above it is removed). Is it allowed to add new headers to
> mails ?
> 
> E.g. I'm thinking about the following: When the mbox resource reads the mbox
> file, it checks each mail if a special header exists (let's call it
> X-Akonadi-Id) and if not it adds that header and writes all mails back into
> the mbox file. The X-Akonadi-Id header would contain some unique id, e.g.
> the Akonadi::Item id()

This sounds rather expensive and will cause a huge slowdown and IO after every 
single change (and subsequent compaction). I don't have a better solution 
though.

Dan


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