MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi  Sun Nov 13 12:17:27 2011
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:47 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] [noob] multiple fetch responses for the same
	message?
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On 13.11.2011, at 22.00, Petite Abeille wrote:

> Given a fetch command for one message, with two attributes:
> 
> ABC FETCH 1 (FLAGS RFC822.SIZE)
> 
> There is usually one response per message, including both attributes:
> 
> * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) RFC822.SIZE 44827)
> 
> Would it be compliant to return instead two responses, one for each attribute?
> 
> * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
> * 1 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 44827)


Possibly would be compliant, but you'd most likely also break tons of clients by doing that, so it's a rather pointless thing to do.


