Re: [imapext] AD review of draft-ietf-imapapnd-appendlimit-extension-06 (Section 2)

[Dave Cridland <[e-mail]>]

On 10 December 2015 at 17:19, Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> On 10/12/2015 16:32, S Moonesamy wrote:
>
>> Hi Naren,
>> At 07:52 10-12-2015, Naren wrote:
>>
>>> Our MAY means
>>> (a) The IMAP server can advertise this capability before the user has
>>> logged in.
>>> OR
>>> (b) The IMAP server can advertise this capability after the user has
>>> logged in.
>>>
>>
>> Based on the AD review [1] and the short discussion about that sentence
>> in Section 2, my opinion is that the intent of the what is written in the
>> draft is not clear.  What are the implications of (a) and (b)?  What if the
>> IMAP server advertises that there is a limit which applies to all mailboxes
>> before the user has logged in?
>>
> The it means that the limit applies to all users. However the server can
> also return another limit for some users after logging in, which will
> override the globally announced limit. So it is not OR, but AND/OR.
>
>
I feel this is much more confusing than it should be.

If the server gives a pre-auth APPENDLIMIT, but does not give a post-auth
APPENDLIMIT, does this mean that there is a general append limit but it
does not apply to me, or that there is a general append limit and there's
no change for me, or is it an error?

Dave.