draft-melnikov-imap-unselect-00.txt

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> Thu, 17 October 2002 13:06 UTC

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It might be appropriate to say that clients should fall back to do
EXAMINE on the currently selected mailbox followed by CLOSE if the
UNSELECT capability is not present.  This approach is better than
using SELECT on a dummy mailbox which is mentioned now.