MBOX-Line: From ams at oryx.com  Thu Jun 22 00:53:22 2006
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@oryx.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:37 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Re: questions regarding number of replies to an
	IMAPv4rev1 request.
In-Reply-To: <CF406A890CCCA14E9543EAFBE3A2C2D10712AA@exchindia2.starentnetworks.com>
References: <CF406A890CCCA14E9543EAFBE3A2C2D10712AA@exchindia2.starentnetworks.com>
Message-ID: <20060622075322.GB19797@penne.toroid.org>

At 2006-06-22 12:46:45 +0530, spatankar@starentnetworks.com wrote:
>
> I have seen a LIST request getting three untagged LIST responses, and
> no tagged response at all.

That's just plain broken. Which server is generating that?

> 2:  Is there only one tagged response to a request, or can there be
> more than one?

Every command must have exactly one tagged response, and it tells you
that processing of the command has completed.

> 3:  When there are two or more requests in the pipeline, and I receive
> an untagged response, to which of the requests does it belong?

In general, you can't tell. (Why do you need to?)

-- ams

