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

[Stephan Bosch <[e-mail]>]

Op 19-7-2018 om 16:14 schreef Bron Gondwana:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, at 23:40, Ned Freed wrote:
>>
>>         However, I think use of SELECT for this purpose is
>>         problematic: It's
>>         potentially expensive and worse, may cause undesireable state
>>         changes.
>>         Why
>>         not use the MYRIGHTS command to obtain the access rights (and
>>         check
>>         for "p" or
>>         "i") without having to select the mailbox?
>>
>>
>>     Sure, if the ACL capability is available. I can mention that. If
>>     it is
>>     not available, there is really no alternative to using SELECT, right?
>>
>>
>> Not as far as I know. But again, the problem is that SELECTing a mailbox
>> on behalf of a user can change its state, with all that implies. I'd 
>> rather
>> have my implementation fail if ACL isn't present than have a sieve 
>> operation
>> cause a state change.
>
> Thanks \Recent.  But at least EXAMINE rather than SELECT should also 
> mean no change made (in theory).
>

The EXAMINE command will not provide information on the read-only status 
of the mailbox though:

RFC 3501, Section 6.3.2:

The text of the tagged OK response to the EXAMINE command MUST begin with the "[READ-ONLY]" response code.

Regards,

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Stephan Bosch
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