Re: draft-melnikov-imap-search-res

Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU> Tue, 19 October 2004 17:41 UTC

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From: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>
To: Alexey Melnikov <Alexey.Melnikov@isode.com>
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Subject: Re: draft-melnikov-imap-search-res
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> One thing I wanted to do but hasn't: add a SEARCH option to "suppress" 
> untagged SEARCH responses. Something like
> a SEARCH 1:10,20:30,47 (NORESULT)

Parentheses already mean something in SEARCH.

Fortunately, there is a precedent for initial atoms, such as
 	tag SEARCH SILENT 1:10,20:30,47
etc.

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