MBOX-Line: From oleung at traversenetworks.com  Tue Sep 27 11:24:59 2005
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Otto Leung <oleung@traversenetworks.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:36 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] partial fetch
Message-ID: <3D9D02497026344DB100E7D18A6C06E3B5E200@nbexch01.neubond.com>

What's the policy of revealing the Imap server in question?

-----Original Message-----
From: mrc@ndcms.cac.washington.edu [mailto:mrc@ndcms.cac.washington.edu]
On Behalf Of Mark Crispin
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 10:13 AM
To: Otto Leung
Cc: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [Imap-protocol] partial fetch

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Otto Leung wrote:
> Why is Partial Fetch important to be implemented on the server side?

It is documented as mandatory-to-implement in the specification. 
Consequently, there are clients which depend upon it being implemented, 
and these clients will not function if it is not implemented.

An IMAP server implementation MUST implement all mandatory-to-implement 
facilities in the base specification.  Unless something is explicitly 
documented as optional (or "MAY") in the base specification, then it is 
mandatory-to-implement.

In general, the only optional facilities in the IMAP base specification 
are the ability to reference non-INBOX mailboxes (the server can reply
NO 
to some other mailbox name) and the ability to SEARCH character sets
other 
than US-ASCII and UTF-8.

-- Mark --

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