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

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

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).

Does this work for people?

Best Regards,

Alexey