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From: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:37 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] LIST Clarification
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I think that Vladimir makes some good points here too.  I don't know if we 
actually want to do this, but I think that we ought to consider it.  In 
any case, we are going to need at least one more Proposed Standard 
document for IMAP before we go to Draft.

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Vladimir A. Butenko wrote:
> I do not see any real "error" in the current protocol specs. But some 
> clarification would be a good thing - if/when you plan to release a new 
> version of that RFC.
>
> Ideally, the IMAP standard should be broken in 2 - the "Mail store standard" 
> with all semantics of the mail store (including all that INBOX mess, ACLs, 
> renaming of INBOX, case sensitivity, the UTF-7 encoding of mailbox names, 
> etc, etc.,) and the "IMAP proper" - the protocol itself. The first standard 
> should also specify how other protocols should access mail store. For 
> example, what should happen if I read mail via POP and some message has been 
> deleted and some has been added? We know what will happen (the client should 
> not see the change in message #s, and attempts to retrieve the deleted 
> message should return -Err or an empty message) - but there should be a place 
> to explain all these things. And the IMAP protocol (or POP protocol) specs 
> are not the right place for all these things.

-- Mark --

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