[httpmail] Query for two clarifications

[Marcin Bazydło <[e-mail]>]

Dear all,

I am using this draft as a help for implementation of a little different 
mail service done restfully.
I see some assumptions made in this work which are not completly clear 
if anyone can present thei opinion on this issues I would be glad.

1. I have already prepared structure of uri's and planned to have 
directory like structure which is natural for most users. Important 
feature of directory like structure is that directory can contain both 
directories and messages.

As far as I understood this draft it proposes representations for both 
list of directories and list of messages but it is impossible to have 
single feed containing both. Is there any reason for such separation?

 From my point of view if I would like to be consistent with 
specification and check for changes in any directory it will need to 
queries from client - one for messages and other for directories. It 
will also request server to have two separate uri's for each.

2. Is access to message in rfc822 format really fitting this 
specification. As for finding mailboxes and listing directory contents 
sepcification leaves no option as to use atom protocol any client which 
is using this specification needs to implement parsing atom entries. 
Therefore it seems strange to leave for backwards compatibility access 
to old message format. I propose changing this format to recommended one 
not necessary.
Old format shall be recommended because I can imagine that there exists 
some code base prepared for parsing rfc822 format which may lead to 
easier implementation in some cases (like addons to mail clients), but 
still I think most thin clients will prefer sticking to atom.

Best regards,
Marcin Bazydło
Poznań University of Technology