Re: The IMAP APPENDLIMIT Extension

Alexey Melnikov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imapext
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Michael,

> On 16 Feb 2015, at 23:09, Michael M Slusarz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Quoting Alexey Melnikov <[email protected]>:
> 
>>> On 16/02/2015 06:07, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
>>> 
>>> 2) I don't believe the APPENDLIMIT response code should be returned for an EXAMINE operation.  The value is irrelevant since you can't append to a read-only mailbox.
>> Actually you are wrong on this one, because the APPEND command takes a mailbox name as a parameter, so it can be used from any mailbox (or no mailbox). So the currently selected mailbox and its state is irrelevant.
> 
> I disagree with you here.
> 
> Agreed that APPEND has a mailbox argument, so it can be called from a non-selected context.
> 
> But APPEND is also allowed to be called from within a mailbox.  And if that current selected context is read-only via EXAMINE, my understanding/belief is that an APPEND cannot be successful since that would be an action that causes a "change[] to the permanent state of the mailbox".

This is only talking about changes to flags/per-message state, EXAMINE was not suppose to prevent message injections and APPENDs.

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