Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slus...@curecanti.org>:
It is concerning because RFC 4466 indicates that literal8's are
allowed for both APPEND and MULTIAPPEND, which is essentially an
extended APPEND. But RFC 4469 defines CATENATE TEXT as literal only:
RFC 4466:
append-data = literal / literal8 / append-data-ext
RFC 4469:
append-data =/ "CATENATE" SP "(" cat-part *(SP cat-part) ")"
cat-part = text-literal / url
text-literal = "TEXT" SP literal
To me CATENATE =~ MULTIAPPEND - it is just another form of an
extended APPEND. Not sure why it shouldn't be allowed there.
Answered my own question here - sure enough, it was an oversight:
http://osdir.com/ml/ietf.imapext/2006-03/msg00030.html
michael
