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MBOX-Line: From MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU Mon Apr 10 15:14:23 2006
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:37 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] LIST Clarification
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In-Reply-To: <web-35036142@mail.stalker.com>
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References: <443A7A2D.2070708@consilient.com> <web-35034698@mail.stalker.com>
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<Pine.OSX.4.64.0604101053530.2906@pangtzu.panda.com>
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<web-35035906@mail.stalker.com>
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<Pine.WNT.4.65.0604101359200.4904@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
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<web-35036142@mail.stalker.com>
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Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.65.0604101512080.4904@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
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I think that Vladimir makes some good points here too. I don't know if we
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actually want to do this, but I think that we ought to consider it. In
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any case, we are going to need at least one more Proposed Standard
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document for IMAP before we go to Draft.
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Vladimir A. Butenko wrote:
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> I do not see any real "error" in the current protocol specs. But some
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> clarification would be a good thing - if/when you plan to release a new
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> version of that RFC.
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> Ideally, the IMAP standard should be broken in 2 - the "Mail store standard"
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> with all semantics of the mail store (including all that INBOX mess, ACLs,
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> renaming of INBOX, case sensitivity, the UTF-7 encoding of mailbox names,
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> etc, etc.,) and the "IMAP proper" - the protocol itself. The first standard
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> should also specify how other protocols should access mail store. For
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> example, what should happen if I read mail via POP and some message has been
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> deleted and some has been added? We know what will happen (the client should
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> not see the change in message #s, and attempts to retrieve the deleted
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> message should return -Err or an empty message) - but there should be a place
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> to explain all these things. And the IMAP protocol (or POP protocol) specs
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> are not the right place for all these things.
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-- Mark --
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http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
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Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
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Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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