Re: Proper Response to UID STORE command?

[Dilip Menon]

Mark,   But is this not solved by servers announcing untagged responses? This is a mandatory requirement of IMAP servers.   Does the server have to behave differently and announce the newly-arrived messages seperately? Are you suggesting any special implementation on the server side?   ~Dilip     ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Crispin To: Rodney Price Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:29 PM Subject: Re: Proper Response to UID STORE command? There are two parts to the answer. The first part is that this is a well-known bug in OE.  Indeed, it should not be attempting to fetch UIDs for messages which have not yet been announced in the session. The second part is that you can avoid this problem in your server by immediately announcing newly-arrived messages in all sessions which have the mailbox selected.  Although not required by the IMAP specification, it is nonetheless bad behavior for a server not to do so. OE is broken (in violation of the specification), and your server is not. Nevertheless, the most straightforward workaround for OE's broken behavior is to immediately announce of new messages; and this is something that is actually desirable for all clients. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.