Re: WG last call on draft-ietf-imapext-condstore-00.txt

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

Mark Crispin wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> > | Why would one want to use MODSEQ with THREAD?
> > For the same reason one would use it in the search criteria on sort: to
> > have the command return results only for those messages that changed since
> > the MODSEQ. I doubt this is really a useful behaviour but it has to be
> > present for consistency if you are adding MODSEQ to search unless its
> > explicitly stated MODSEQ can't be used in sort/thread search criteria.
>
> I'm hard-pressed to think of a use for MODSEQ with THREAD; and while SORT
> presents some possible use I doubt that there would be much of that in
> real life.

I agree with Mark here.
I can see a utility in MODSEQ criterion in SEARCH and MODSEQ sort order in SORT.

I prefer to live it unspecified how MODSEQ search criteria can be used in
THREAD. Any objections?

> If you declare that MODSEQ is an additional argument to SEARCH (much as
> CHARSET is) instead of a SEARCH criterion, then you avoid the issue.  But
> that's no good if you decide to have MODSEQ in SORT.

Regards,
Alexey
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