Re: Interesting (gross?) use of CHANNEL
Lyndon Nerenberg <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:31:30 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.imap-voice |
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| Organization | ACI Worldwide - Advanced Technology Group |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> - Am I allowed to get the entire message instead of just a part? No, you can only grab things that can be indentified by MIME section numbers. This is an artifact of the syntax, and not necessarily a deliverate retriction. Channel was intended to provide alternative processing of specific body sections. The idea of sending the entire message somewhere never even came up. > - The document says (in a comment) > You cannot ask for .HEADERS or .MIME data with CHANNEL. It didn't seem to be a useful thing to do. At least, not useful enough to justify adding complexity to the parsers to handle it. (Which admittedly isn't a lot of complexity. However I don't like adding "features" to protocols unless there is a compelling need for them. If there's a consensus that fetching .HEADERS and .MIME