MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi  Wed May 23 22:26:46 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:39 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Re: FLAGS response
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.0.99.0705232059170.10455@pangtzu.panda.com>
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Message-ID: <1179984406.32181.1730.camel@hurina>

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 21:22 -0700, Mark Crispin wrote:
> > And it adds to the vector if a FETCH response contains a flag that was
> > not announced in the FLAGS (because it was created after the current
> > session began, for example)? OK.
> 
> Before issuing that FETCH response, the server has to send a FLAGS 
> response with the new keyword.

And I suppose it's OK for server to drop unused keywords from a FLAGS
reply and announce that to clients at any point?

Is it a good idea to drop unused keywords whenever their last user
(message) went away? Or should I bother adding some kind of a "unused
for one month (or so)" timeout too?

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