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Re: Communciator 4.02 Imap EXPUNGE problem

Mark Crispin <MRC@cac.washington.edu> Tue, 26 August 1997 21:25 UTC

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From: Mark Crispin <MRC@cac.washington.edu>
To: "Barry Leiba, Multimedia Messaging" <leiba@watson.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: Communciator 4.02 Imap EXPUNGE problem
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On Tue, 26 Aug 1997 16:48:12 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time), Barry Leiba,
Multimedia Messaging wrote:
> No doubt some of it will.  I'm hoping, though, that more of it will be
> along the line of
> * beware of making this assumption; some servers do not support it,
> * beware of doing this or that with the protocol; in some configurations
>   it's dangerous,
> * be sure to consider this or that, because we've seen problems with it.

I wonder if it wouldn't be better instead to have a specific description of
what is a *minimum* compliant server, and specify that clients must
interoperate with it.

It might also be useful to conjure a "evil" server implementation that screws
the client every chance it gets (e.g. "LIST *" causes 100,000 randomly
generated names to be returned, CREATE/DELETE/RENAME all return NO, INBOX has
10,000 messages,...

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