Re: [IMAP] APPEND Command Usage

Alexey Melnikov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imapext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 18/12/2014 17:19, Jamie Nicolson (倪志明) wrote:
> For servers that have a single APPENDLIMIT across all mailboxes, it's 
> easier (and saves bandwidth) to not have to specify any per-mailbox 
> APPENDLIMIT in the SELECT response. In this case the APPENDLIMIT 
> specified in the CAPABILITY should hold across all mailboxes. I think 
> this is the intent, but the only direct statement about this I see in 
> the document is for the APPENDLIMIT response code to SELECT in section 
> 3.1: "If this is missing, the client can always honour the value 
> received as part of CAPABILITY response." I'd like this to be a little 
> more firm, so that the server can choose to omit the per-mailbox 
> APPENDLIMIT and know that the client will respect the common limit.
>
> Perhaps you could state this directly in the introduction to section 
> 3, something like, "If no per-mailbox APPENDLIMIT is specified for a 
> folder, but the server did specify a common APPENDLIMIT in the 
> CAPABILITY response, then the common APPENDLIMIT applies to that folder."
+1.

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