Ralphm: I agree. It's a hard problem and one of the best solutions is IMAP. Short of that, storing a timestamp of the last read message seems like a decent way to solve it (not the best, but a good start).
ralphm
Except IMAP is horrible in a bunch of ways. I hope MAM will up the ante.
dwd
IMAP is also quite nice in a number of ways. Very badly misunderstood, though.
Kev
I'm not sure I've got to the really horrible bits yet.
simon
The IMAP spec isn't descriptive enough on some cases. But it does what it promises across a range of servers and clients.
ralphm
dwd: I wasn't necessarily talking about the protocol only. Many things are implementation flaws.
dwd
Kev, Esoteric bits of the LIST command, some of the legacy gunk, most of the mailbox heirarchy stuff.
simon
leaving the door to marking individual posts read in MAM would be nice.
ralphm
Also, I'm wondering why you have to have multiple connections for IDLE to get updates on multiple folders
Kev
Lance and I (and others) were discussing this in hallways (this being message sync in XMPP), and I think there's a chance one or other of us will finish my multi-client thing at some point with some suggestions of how to do it.
Kev
ralphm: Well, yes, that bit is a little suboptimal.
dwd
ralphm, That too. And why you need IDLE at all (you shouldn't, according to the spec)
ralphm
I have had to tell our IMAP server to have a gazillion possible connections
ralphm
'cause I have many folders
dwd
ralphm, And some clients do two connections per folder (IDLE + read), plus another for appending.
ralphm
yeah
ralphm
Aaaand we're back talking about e-mail
dwd
Mail's where all the trendy people are these days.
simon
I heard it can do push
dwd
Really - and mostly because it's an open federated network, so anyone can jump in with a new entrant.
Kev
Synonyms
superficial, shallow, materialistic
Kev
Thanks wikipedia :)
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dwd
stpeter, Any chance you could mail that invoice template you had to board@?
Ge0rG
ralphm: no MAM in yaxim yet
ralphm
Ge0rG: ok, but that's Zash' page
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Ge0rG
ralphm: "reported issues" does not look like a promise of support to me ;)
Ge0rG
ralphm: btw, what was the name of that ribs place again?
ralphm
Aux Paves de Bruxelles
Ge0rG
thanks very much
ralphm
going to B again?
Ge0rG
no, logging my expenses
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bear
hmm, I wonder if Kev has the answers we used from a prior gsoc app (I am searching my side now)