Re: [Extra] [EXT] Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-extra-imap-fetch-preview-09: (with COMMENT)

[Benjamin Kaduk <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 07:36:31AM -0400, Barry Leiba wrote:
> > > Section 8
> > >
> > > Does it go without saying that a given user should only have access to
> > > preview content for messages that it has access to the full content of?
> >
> > The base IMAP4rev1 document doesn't even have this kind of warning.
> >  If we think that this is necessary here then we should probably also
> > push this idea to Alexey and Barry as they are working on the new IMAP
> > revision, since this warning would apply to message data in general.
> >
> > I don't believe this draft fundamentally changes anything in IMAP.  If
> > you can access a mail in a mailbox, you can access its full body.
> >  This extension just provides an alternative view of that body data,
> > so it doesn't provide a novel way of accessing data.
> 
> Put in terms of Ben's phrasing: Yes, it goes without saying.  There's
> no partial access in IMAP: if you can do any FETCH command on a
> message, you can do all FETCH commands on a message.  I don't think
> anything further needs to be said.  We can consider whether it's worth
> being more wordy about that in the imap4rev2 draft, which the IESG
> should see fairly soon.  (I don't think more is needed there either,
> but we can chat about that.)

Agreed, and sounds good.  ("You took the words right out of my mouth.")

Thanks,

Ben