Re: Interesting (gross?) use of CHANNEL

Lyndon Nerenberg <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:31:30 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imap-voice
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