Re: ProtonMail Bridge Patch

Bjørn Mork <[email protected]> writes:

> Jakub Ječmínek <[email protected]> writes:
>> "Eric Abrahamsen" <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> I also wasn't able to find anything explicit in RFC 3501 or 9051 about
>>> the order of FETCH responses -- for my information, can you point me in
>>> the right direction?
>>
>> That's the thing. There's nothing explicit in RFC 3501 about the message
>> order so AFAIK the consensus is that UIDs don't have to be sorted.
>
> I was curiuos about this too and went looking.  I believe the definition
> of "sequence-set" (which is what the ID range in the FETCH request is)
> on https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3501#page-90 suggests that
> clients should expect replies in any order:
>
>    Servers MAY coalesce overlaps and/or execute the sequence in any
>    order.

Thanks! I hadn't looked as far as the formal syntax section, that's helpful.