MBOX-Line: From MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU  Tue Apr  4 11:11:54 2006
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:37 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] question about BAD
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Adrian Buciuman wrote:
> > On 4/4/06, Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> wrote:
> > You can't ask the server to wait until the end of something it doesn't
> > recognize.
> Why not? I belive it can wait until a LF is received from the client.

Nothing in the IMAP protocol requires the server to do so.  Most servers 
probably do, especially if they implement the LITERAL+ extension.

However, your client should not care.

-- Mark --

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