Re: [imapext] AD review of draft-ietf-imapapnd-appendlimit-extension-06

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Wed, 16 December 2015 20:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [imapext] AD review of draft-ietf-imapapnd-appendlimit-extension-06
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>> Why do we think there's anything wrong with using, say, the word
>> "NONE" (either case-insensitive or case-sensitive; I don't care)?
>> What's wrong with this?:
>>
>> C: t1 STATUS INBOX (APPENDLIMIT)
>> S: * STATUS INBOX (APPENDLIMIT NONE)
>> S: t1 OK STATUS completed
>
> If you're going to do that, why not make it (APPENDLIMIT NIL),
> which already has exactly the meaning that we want?

Yes, I'd forgotten about the existing token "NIL".  I like that approach.

Barry