<macie.korte@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1157494996.236587.282150@e3g2000cwe.googlegro ups.com...
> using raw IMAP commands:
> I understand how to get the UID of a message from that message's
> sequence number:
> ( "123 FETCH 1 UID" )
>
> but how do you get a sequence number given the UID??? The map between
> the two is not static during the life of a connection, so obviously
> just keeping track of the two isn't much use, but I've been pouring
> over the spec (3501) and can't figure out how to get sequence number
> from UID.

This should do it:

123 SEARCH UID 456

Pete Maclean