MBOX-Line: From lyndon at orthanc.ca  Sun Nov  6 14:12:34 2011
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: VE6BBM/VE7TFX <lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg>)
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:47 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] [noob] select & unseen?
In-Reply-To: <CC6741D6-AC71-409E-A9CD-E3E209BDDC92@mac.com>
Message-ID: <decda91f269cd38d694d07a2784ad0dd@orthanc.ca>

> Does any actual IMAP clients care?

It's not optional, so as a server implementor you are
required to send something. What a client does with it
is the client's business.

Not sending it is a protocol violation, and a well behaved
client is perfectly free to drop the connection at that point
due to the protocol violation.


