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It's actually in the original IMAP4rev1 RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3501#section-2.3.1.1 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3501#section-2.3.1.1 Usin
by epilys 4y ago
It's actually in the original IMAP4rev1 RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3501#section-2.3.1.1 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3501#section-2.3.1.1
Using UIDs is opt-in, by prefixing `UID ` in front of some commands. There are indeed extensions that add more `UID ` commands to the protocol. I've implemented IMAP clients and never used sequence numbers at all.
- vidarh 4y agoUID was present already in RFC 1730 (IMAPv4): https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1730#section-6.4.9 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1730#section-6.4.9