Earlier tonight I posted a link to a bug report for zarafa and thunderbird, showing problems with a proprietary aol extension they both implement.
If that does not show real need, I don't know what would suffice. Barry Leiba <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Cyrus Daboo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Which mailing list? imapext or imap5? > >Typo (or braino). There is no "imapext" list. > >>> flagged for deletion, the third step has the side effect of >expunging >> ^^^ >> >> Really it is "can have the side effect" since clients might have the >option >> of using UID EXPUNGE > >But UID EXPUNGE is part of the UIDPLUS extension, not in base IMAP >(and I'm not sure how widely deployed UIDPLUS is. And, as you say, >one would have to be mentally unstable to try to work around this the >other way. Still, "can have" is fine, and I've changed the text. > >>> The IMAP MOVE extension (imapmove) working group has the single task >>> of developing an atomic IMAP MOVE command that will move a set of >> ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ >> Use "extension" instead of "command" as the actual command is "UID >MOVE" as >> per Arnt's spec. As per Timo, I am not sure we should state it will >be >> "atomic" as that may restrict what we do in the spec. > >It's meant to be "atomic" from the client's view, whether or not it's >atomic in the server. But I prefer your later suggestion of "single >command", so I've changed it accordingly. > >> Are there existing client and server implementations of the >> draft-gulbrandsen-imap-move right now? > >So Arnt tells me. > >> Does "implementation" also cover >> actual interoperability testing, or does it only speak to the actual >ability >> to modify existing servers/clients to adopt the extension? > >If there's interop testing, it would be very fine to document that >here. But that's not what this is about; this is to show that there's >a real need for this, and active work on implementations (as opposed >to our developing another IMAP extension that gets essentially no >use). > >Attached is the latest charter version, with these changes. > >Barry > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >imap5 mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/imap5 Arnt
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