[Chandler-dev] Chandler IMAP server parcel

[Travis Vachon]

>
> It's probably a largely theoretical issue, since people don't 
> typically delete & recreate mailboxes at a given path very frequently, 
> but won't hash(UUID()) repeat values at some point? IMAP's uniqueness 
> requirement (for clients to be able to sync a given mailbox without 
> re-downloading the entire message list every time) is that the triple 
> of (mailbox path, mailbox UID validity, message UID) uniquely 
> identifies a given mailbox.
>
Right. I just took my solution (a random number from a pretty large 
range) from the twisted network programming essentials book. As a point 
of comparison, Courier-IMAP uses a time stamp. Unless there are any 
objections, I think I'll combine the two (timestamp + random number). If 
you think it would be worthwhile,  I could try throwing the hash(UUID()) 
in there too.

-Travis