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I read through your paper "Designing a Planetary-Scale IMAP Service with
Conflict-free Replicated Data Types" but it does not seem to deal with UID assignment amongst replicas?

The IMAP spec requires that a client only ever see the UID of a mailbox to be strictly increasing.

If multiple masters are assigning UIDs, they could ensure uniqueness by using non-contiguous UIDs (e.g. one replica assigns odd UIDs, while another replica assigns even UIDs), yet when these UIDs are replicated to all replicas, clients may see EXISTS for UIDs lower than the latest, and would fail to download these messages.

Are you otherwise using a consensus protocol like Paxos or Raft?

I had hoped your paper would have gone into more detail on UIDs, since this seems to be the big issue with making IMAP truly multi-master.

I would be nice to have a .codeclimate.yml which lints our code for fundamental mistakes in Go.

engines:
 gofmt:
   enabled: true
 golint:
   enabled: true
 govet:
   enabled: true
   
ratings:
 paths:
 - "**.go"
 
exclude_paths:
- "vendor/"

I presume this allows offline edits ?

It's great to see more crdt examples.

I am wishing to build an actual email editor for mobile that uses crdt. Hence why I ask about offline support.
Thanks again for putting up !