Re: IMAP pull-and-delete operation

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On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 10:05:09AM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen via isync-devel wrote:
>>What is so extreme about what I am doing?
>>
>isync's purpose is to keep both sides in sync. MaxMessages is a 
>deviation from that. when you push that number down to zero, that's 
>_literally_ extreme, and you've gone from syncing to fetching.

Well, yes. But I meant more in the programming sense. Why would reducing
MaxMessages result in a higher likelyhood of something going wrong, and
e.g messages being lost?

>because MaxMessage doesn't really fit the basic scheme, its 
>implementation actually comes at a rather significant cost in 
>complexity; it's easily the most difficult part of the whole codebase.
>i don't know if it would be difficult to make it support zero; it 
>might just work with a few minor changes. patches (with autotests) 
>welcome.

I wee. I will take a look. But be careful what you wish for: the last
time I wrote C code was right after reading K&R... and just before the
Yahoo IPO.