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:
> The text and examples showing the interaction of :specialuse with :create seem
> to assume that mailboxes won't be created without :create. This assumption is
> incorrect; the sieve base specification is quite clear that an implementation
> MAY create the specified mailbox if it doesn't exist even if :create isn't
> specified. (Our implementation is one that always creates missing mailboxes
> specified in fileinto; :create is therefore a no-op.)
>
> I think an implementation that creates by default SHOULD also assign the
> special use attribute by default if it able to do so. This should be covered in
> the text. A reference to the text about fileinto in RFC 5228 is probably in
> order here.
>
> The first example should probably be changed to note that what happens in the
> event there's no mailbox with the \Junk attribute and a mailbox named "Spam"
> doesn't exist is implementation-dependent.
>
> The second example should be tweaked a bit to make it clear that the effect of
> :create is to make the creation of the mailbox unconditional.

I forgot to address this one before. This change should fix that:

https://github.com/ietfextra/draft-ietf-extra-sieve-special-use/commit/29528572c2f0c13bf550679672dd54150cf7a8f7

Regards,

Stephan.