Re: [Extra] RFC 9051 on Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - Version 4rev2

[Bron Gondwana <[e-mail]>]

Woohoo!  Congrats Alexey and Barry.  This has been a massive piece of work over very many years.  I'd buy you a drink / icecream, but we'll have to save that for the next time we all meet up in person.

Bron.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021, at 09:49, [e-mail] wrote:
> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
> 
>         
>         RFC 9051
> 
>         Title:      Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - 
>                     Version 4rev2 
>         Author:     A. Melnikov, Ed.,
>                     B. Leiba, Ed.
>         Status:     Standards Track
>         Stream:     IETF
>         Date:       August 2021
>         Mailbox:    [e-mail],
>                     [e-mail]
>         Pages:      163
>         Obsoletes:  RFC 3501
> 
>         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-extra-imap4rev2-30.txt
> 
>         URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9051
> 
>         DOI:        10.17487/RFC9051
> 
> The Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4rev2 (IMAP4rev2) allows
> a client to access and manipulate electronic mail messages on a
> server.  IMAP4rev2 permits manipulation of mailboxes (remote message
> folders) in a way that is functionally equivalent to local folders. 
> IMAP4rev2 also provides the capability for an offline client to
> resynchronize with the server. 
> 
> IMAP4rev2 includes operations for creating, deleting, and renaming
> mailboxes; checking for new messages; removing messages permanently;
> setting and clearing flags; parsing per RFCs 5322, 2045, and 2231;
> searching; and selective fetching of message attributes, texts, and
> portions thereof.  Messages in IMAP4rev2 are accessed by the use of
> numbers. These numbers are either message sequence numbers or unique
> identifiers. 
> 
> IMAP4rev2 does not specify a means of posting mail; this function is
> handled by a mail submission protocol such as the one specified in
> RFC 6409.
> 
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