MBOX-Line: From dave at cridland.net  Mon Sep 18 04:58:58 2006
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:38 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] RFC 2192: what's a section?
In-Reply-To: <20060918104232.GA30583@penne.toroid.org>
References: <20060918104232.GA30583@penne.toroid.org>
Message-ID: <5273.1158580739.969873@invsysm1>

On Mon Sep 18 11:42:33 2006, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> RFC 2192 says (and RFC 2060 agrees):
> 
>     section = section_text /
>               (nz_number *["." nz_number] ["." (section_text / 
> "MIME")])
> 
> And section_text is defined as:
> 
>     section_text = "HEADER" / "HEADER.FIELDS" [".NOT"]
>                    SPACE header_list / "TEXT"
> 
> Do existing IMAP-URL implementations really allow URLs like 
> foo/;UID=23/;SECTION=HEADER.FIELDS%20(Newsgroups%20Content-Md5%20Content-Disposition%20Content-Language%20Content-Location%20Resent-To%20Resent-Date%20Resent-From%20Resent-Cc%20Resent-Subject%20List-Help%20List-Unsubscribe%20List-Subscribe%20List-Post%20List-Owner%20List-Archive%20Followup-To%20References)?

Yes, they sem to. It's possible to use similar constructs in 
CATENATE, and my implementation certain handles this.

Dave.
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