Re: [imapext] Fwd: Request to form a new WG: JMAP

Ted Lemon <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Nov 2016 09:30:14 +0900
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Making offline support a "client issue" means that every client will
do it differently, and there will be no hooks in the protocol to make
it easy/consistent.   Why _wouldn't_ you want to document offline
support?

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Doug Royer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> (lots of stuff ...)
>
> Ned: YES - YES.
>
> I have felt that way for years.
>
> In response to to Ted's concerns about off-line.
>
> I use SeaMonkey (a Thunderbird spin) for my email. When I setup a mail
> account with it, one of the options is for it to cache the email account for
> offline usage.
>
> I would think this is mostly a client issue. In a future protocol, when
> checking for new message data, pull all of the summary data, and optionally
> all of the body parts. Its a client issue. Save the data, or not. If you
> pull it all, then the client is free to save it, or not.
>
>
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