Mark Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > to: > ; * represents the largest number in use. In > ; the case of message sequence numbers, it is > ; the number of messages in a non-empty mailbox > ; (it is an error to use message sequence numbers > ; in an empty mailbox). In the case of unique > ; identifiers, it is the unique identifier of the > ; last message in the mailbox or, if the mailbox > ; is empty, the UIDNEXT value.
I feel "an error" is a bit loose. Exactly what will happen? It is not impossible for a client to send e.g. a UID SEARCH UID 1:* to a mailbox before it discover that the mailbox is empty. I think it would be simpler to say that * represents a missing article if the mailbox is empty. Thus it is not an error to use * in a UID set in empty mailboxes, but rather it simply doesn't match any articles.
