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MBOX-Line: From MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU Fri Mar 16 16:29:37 2007
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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 12:34:38 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] what IMAP extensions to implement?
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In-Reply-To: <07Mar16.123633pst."57996"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
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References: <07Mar16.123633pst."57996"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
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Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.0.83.0703161613040.1748@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Bill Janssen wrote:
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> I'm looking for recommendations as to what extensions make sense to
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> implement in my server. Generally speaking, this is a mix of adding
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> true functionality and reasonably wide-spread client support. I've
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> already added IDLE and NAMESPACE; what else makes sense?
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Going through the current set of standards-track and approved
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(SORT and THREAD are both blocked on i18n) extensions:
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must-have: LOGINDISABLED, STARTTLS
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;; requirement of the specification
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should-have: MULTIAPPEND, SORT, THREAD, UIDPLUS
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;; some clients are heavily impacted if absent
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ought-to-have: BINARY, IDLE, UNSELECT
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;; some clients are impacted if absent
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nice-to-have: CATENATE, CHILDREN, CONDSTORE, ESEARCH, LITERAL+,
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NAMESPACE, SASL-IR, URLAUTH
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;; some clients will benefit if present; note that CATENATE and
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;; URLAUTH are part of the mandatory "trio" for Lemonade
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if meaningful: ACL, LOGIN-REFERRALS, MAILBOX-REFERRALS, QUOTA
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;; may not be meaningful on your server
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your choice: ID
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;; diagnostic purposes
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Some people may disagree with me on some of these boundaries; consider
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them to be fuzzy. I am aware of some clients which would consider some of
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the "nice-to-have" extensions important enough to kick up into a higher
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category.
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The bottom line is that very few extensions stand out as being worthless
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with the possible exception of the two referral extensions, which seem to
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have fallen by the wayside.
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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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