On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, DINH Viet Hoa wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Marcel Crasmaru wrote: > > > Suppose that message of sequence number 1 is unseen. > > > The client issue the command: > > > C: tag fetch 1 body[] > > > and the server fetches the message but for some reasons > > > it can not flag the message as seen (e.g., rename of a file failes). > > > What should the server respond: > > > 0. whatever, the server is already broken; > > > 1. tagged OK without status of the flags; > > > 2. tagged OK with status of the flags but with flag \seen unset; > > > 3. tagged NO or > > > 4. other response? > > (0) is the answer. :-) > and in the case the mailbox is readonly, what is the answer ?
Readonly doesn't matter. Only PERMANENTFLAGS matter. A mailbox can be readonly but still allow the user to set and clear flags (e.g. per-user flags for a public mailbox). -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.