Re: [sieve] Notify (RFC 5435) questions

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Thu, 01 October 2009 21:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sieve] Notify (RFC 5435) questions
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Barry Leiba
<barryleiba.mailing.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I agree that it'd be better to put it into the variables spec.  You
> know I'm not suggesting going through everything to say where you can
> and can't do variable substitution; you should know me better than
> that.  But Hannah has a point: the variables spec says this:
>
>   This extension changes the semantics of quoted-string, multi-line-
>   literal and multi-line-dotstuff found in [SIEVE] to enable the
>   inclusion of the value of variables.
>
> ...and the grammar for "importance" uses none of those three syntax
> constructions.  Taken at its word, that would imply that variable
> substitution doesn't apply here.

I am fine with this being reported as an Erratum. Do you want to do that?

> We might change RFC 5229 to add that
> variables can substitute for literal strings as well.  Or we might
> decide that it's clear enough, and doesn't need changing.