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MBOX-Line: From brong at fastmail.fm Sun Nov 6 14:40:35 2011
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:47 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] [noob] select & unseen?
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In-Reply-To: <5142DE21-C556-4115-B58C-7B3C51DCCFE8@mac.com>
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Message-ID: <1320619235.13489.140660995471761@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On Sun, Nov 6, 2011, at 11:21 PM, Petite Abeille wrote:
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> On Nov 6, 2011, at 11:12 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote:
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> >> Does any actual IMAP clients care?
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> >
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> > It's not optional, so as a server implementor you are
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> > required to send something. What a client does with it
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> > is the client's business.
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> >
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> > Not sending it is a protocol violation, and a well behaved
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> > client is perfectly free to drop the connection at that point
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> > due to the protocol violation.
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> Fair enough. So, for example, to keep with the letter of the spec if not its spirit, a square bracket followed by 2 trailing spaces would do, right?
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> OK [UNSEEN 123]
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Depends if you actually want your server to be used or not.
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Just say "OK" again and the world will be happy.
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Trailing meaningful whitespace is evil[tm].
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--
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Bron Gondwana
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brong@fastmail.fm
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