MBOX-Line: From imap at maclean.com  Sun Jul 12 13:46:18 2009
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Pete Maclean <imap@maclean.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:42 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] copy to same mailbox
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At 09:47 PM 7/11/2009, Mark Crispin wrote:
>I just discovered that the GroupWise IMAP server does not permit the 
>target of a COPY command to be the selected mailbox.  GroupWise has 
>other issues, but apparently nobody has ever complained about this.
>
>Do other servers prohibit COPY to the selected mailbox?
>
>-- Mark --

MISE does not support this and nobody has ever mentioned it.  I 
decided to make the limitation because I imagined there would be 
little demand for it and I wanted to avoid the extra work 
involved.  I just looked at the relevant code and noticed I have a 
"maybe one day" comment there!

Pete Maclean 


