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

[Stephan Bosch <[e-mail]>]

Hi Ned,

Op 08/01/2018 om 17:50 schreef Ned Freed:
> I have a few observations and comments on this draft.
>
> The sieve language is designed not to be specific to IMAP. However, this
> extension seems to specifically tied to IMAP in general and to RFC 6154
> in particular. This means there's really no reason not to tighten the
> association - in particular, would it not make sense to provide sample
> IMAP command sequences to implement the various things in this specification?
>
> This would be quite helpful to implementors, who might otherwise overlook an
> important step.

[...]

> I'm pretty sure you don't intend this to cover shared folders, so I suggest
> changing the text to say something like:
>
>     a.  at least one mailbox exists in the user's personal namespace
>         [NAMESPACE]  that has that particular special-use flag assigned, and
>
> And add the [NAMESPACE] reference pointing at RFC 2342.
>
> This, incidentially, is one of those places where providing the actual IMAP
> commands will be especially valuable: Pointing out that you should use the
> NAMESPACE extension and if it isn't present, fallback to LIST "" would be very
> helpful.

Here's my initial attempt at addressing this point (separate branch in 
Github):

https://github.com/ietfextra/draft-ietf-extra-sieve-special-use/commit/035a1af6137a383089c8d54cd733238dc2dfebda

This adds an IMAP example for specialuse_exists.

What do you think?

Regards,

Stephan.