Re: [Extra] imap4rev2: STATUS DELETED

[Michael Slusarz <[e-mail]>]

> On November 20, 2018 at 2:19 PM Chris Newman <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8 Nov 2018, at 3:30, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > This is one of the open issues from imap4rev2 - which extensions 
> > should be part of the mandatory baseline.
> >
> > This was a discussion about a way to easily see if there are messages 
> > with \Deleted in a mailbox, maybe to see how much quota can be freed 
> > up. General agreement in the room was "IMAP4rev2 is for a baseline of 
> > existing standards, maybe this should be a new document, but not part 
> > of IMAP4rev2"
> >
> > Discussion on whether we think the general concept is useful, and 
> > whether it's so useful we should make it part of IMAP4rev2 in response 
> > to this please.
> 
> We've implemented a custom 'status counts' extension that provides 
> counts based on each configured message type including:
>   * total, seen, deleted, seen-deleted
> the intention of this extension was to help support voicemail and 
> similar unified messaging features. We implemented quota & quota-usage 
> by message type via a quota root naming convention.
> 
> I don't think we should delay IMAP4rev2 to include something like this, 
> but I can see it being helpful for some use cases.

Not much support from us on this.  We question its usefulness, as proposed.

Timo pointed out this somewhat related former proposal: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-neystadt-imap-status-counters-01

Maybe this makes sense if status checking is more extensible, and not limited to a single attribute?  But it also seems that this kind of solution is not something to cram into rev2 at this stage.

michael