Re: [Extra] I-D Action: draft-ietf-extra-sieve-special-use-01.txt

[Stephan Bosch <[e-mail]>]

Op 2/15/2018 om 11:30 PM schreef Stephan Bosch:
> Op 1/17/2018 om 12:14 AM schreef Stephan Bosch:
>> Hi Ned,
>>
>> Op 1/9/2018 om 10:44 PM schreef Ned Freed:
> Slowly making progress on this one.
>
> I just gave the point below a fresh look:
>
>>>>> The other aspect of the many-many mapping is the fact that a single mailbox can
>>>>> have multiple special use attributes. The draft supports this in the context of
>>>>> specialuse_exists but not in the context of fileinto. I think this is fine, but
>>>>> I want to make sure everyone is happy with this limitation, including the fact
>>>>> that because of this you won't be able to create mailbox with fileinto with
>>>>> multiple special use attributes.
>>>> Good point. For sake of discussion, let's assume we allow a string list
>>>> for the :specialuse parameter. The semantics for creation of a mailbox
>>>> would be quite clear: all of those flags are assigned to the new
>>>> mailbox.
>>> Seems reasonable.
>>>
>>>> But what would that mean for the mailbox lookup? Are we looking
>>>> for a mailbox that has all of these flags, one of these flags or just
>>>> the first flag listed?
>>> The convention elsewhere seems pretty clearly to be for it to be an AND rather
>>> than an OR.
>> I agree.
>>
>>>> Another question is whether mailboxes with several special-use flags are
>>>> really that useful.
>>> Apart from \All, which I would hope is not up to clients to set, I don't see
>>> them as being useful. But I may be missing some use cases, which is why I 
>>> brought it up.
>> Ok.
> Now my question to everyone is: do I need to change anything or is the
> fileinto limitation acceptable?

Opinions anyone?

Regards,

-- 
Stephan Bosch
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