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jdthedisciple on Nov 2, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody c...

I know right? I mean naive question, but why wouldn't they simply use actual UUIDs/GUIDs?

aasasd on Nov 2, 2022 [–]

I'm pretty sure Proton didn't invent IMAP, and from the protocol log it seems like IMAP insists on the incrementing ids. Probably thanks to it having been designed in the late eighties and early nineties.

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