Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(_at_)orthanc(_dot_)ca> wrote:
>> So, each message has a (U?)UID? Are the integers a subset of that?
> UIDs increase monotonically within a folder. Sequence numbers are just
> the index number into the dynamic array that represents the current set
> of messages visible withing a folder. UIDs never change (for all
> practical purposes), whereas sequence numbers change all the time.
So, if we forbid "pack", we can have UIDs rather than sequence numbers?
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