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Re: [EAI] POP/IMAP authentication?

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Mon, 27 July 2009 11:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [EAI] POP/IMAP authentication?
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Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure that text such as this belongs in the POP and IMAP 
>> documents, as opposed to the framework document.  Maybe it belongs in 
>> the POP and IMAP, but I'm not convinced yet.  The idea seems to be to 
>> convey some basic information regarding how accounts should be set 
>> up, which can be helpful, but doesn't really have anything to do with 
>> POP/IMAP, aside from the account data being used there (as well as 
>> elsewhere).
>
> I agree, this text would be better in the framework document. We 
> should revise the framework document anyway. 
It may be even better in one of the "implementation advice" documents 
(which we'll have to sort out today).

               Harald

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