Re: [Extra] IMAP4rev2: how to signal canonical mailbox name after CREATE

[Bron Gondwana <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020, at 03:38, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> On 17/06/2020 13:27, Bron Gondwana wrote:

>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020, at 22:15, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>>> 1) abandon use of this response code (and use a new response instead), e.g.

>>>> * CREATED "a123" "Denormalized name" MAILBOXID "123456"

>>>>  This would require clients to ignore an extra response, if they don't recognize it.

>>> 
>>> Somehow I've a feeling that there are going to be clients that will break if they see these kind of unknown untagged replies. But that's just a guess, so maybe not. We could of course send it only when client has used ENABLE IMAP4REV2 and then there wouldn't be any problems.
>> 
>> I like this. Only send if IMAP4REV2 is enabled and all[tm] your problems go away.
> Following on the suggestion to use LIST extended data items for this

> 

>  C: C04 create NonCannonicalName
>  S: * LIST () "/" "CannonicalName" ("TAG" ("C04"))
>  S: C04 OK done
> 

> In the example above imagine that "CannonicalName" is the canonical (normalized) version of "NonCannonicalName"

> 

> And the corresponding ABNF:
> 
> tag-extended-item = "TAG" SP "(" tag-string ")"
>  ; Complies with <mbox-list-extended-item>
>  ; The value complies with <tagged-ext-val>
>  ; The value is the tag of the corresponding
>  ; CREATE command.
> 

> And a similar extended data item can be used to return MAILBOXID (when supported).


Yes, this works for me.

Bron.

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