[Kroupware] Re: Synchronization of deleted data

[Jason A. Pattie]

Bo Thorsen wrote:

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>On Tuesday 01 July 2003 17:48, Jason A. Pattie wrote:
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>>>>Since IMAP servers have the concept of deleted messages, this would
>>>>greatly simplify synchronization of deleted data between clients.
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>>>No, it would only fill up the disk unnecessarily.
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>>We were thinking that the clients (non-kroupware aware) would need some
>>way to know that the events they have that are no longer on the server
>>really need to be deleted.  Leaving the messages on the server in a
>>deleted state (we thought) would facilitate this.
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>You're making a wrong assumption here without testing it. If an IMAP 
>client doesn't detect a file was removed from the server, it's broken. 
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Do you know if libc-client (an IMAP library from UW IMAP project) 
works?  I've been looking into using it as the IMAP client for the 
MultiSync plugin.

>This works fine in the KDE Kolab client without leaving deleted messages 
>on the server. If you really want to, look at the source code for the 
>synchronization in the client. You can find this in 
>kdenetwork/kmail/kmfoldercachedimap.cpp.
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