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Re: [lemonade] IMAP resume

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Thu, 03 April 2008 13:34 UTC

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On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Zoltan.Ordogh@nokia.com wrote:
>
> SMTP does have a CHECKPOINT extension [RFC1845] that allows a broken
> download to be finished.

See also
http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/qsmtp/draft-fanf-smtp-rfc1845bis.html

> In IMAP, the best one can do currently is to slice the content to
> pieces, upload the pieces, and have CATENATE [RFC4469] reassemble the
> final piece. This is very resource-consuming on the client.

Why is it significantly worse than uploading in one unreliable chunk?

Tony.
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