RE: draft-gellens-pop3ext-07.txt

a minor comment on draft-07

Seems that LOGIN-DELAY is a parameter that one might reasonably want to set
on a per-user basis.  e.g. The common users might have a setting of 600
seconds, but the executives might be allowed to poll every minute.  I know
that we have a class of users that demand to get "instant" notification of
messages arriving.

Thus, under "possible differences" for LOGIN-DELAY, you might want to change
no to yes, and then add the spiel you have under "EXPIRE" about if the
server has a per-user setting. e.g.  it SHOULD announce the more accurate
version is in the transaction state and append the USER token to the
LOGIN-DELAY. The server should advertise maximum possible Login delay in the
AUTHORIZATION state.

The UIDL parameter may also fall in this category.  I have heard that some
servers don't allow the UIDL command, because they don't want to have
clients leave mail on the server.  The ability to leave mail on the server,
certainly could be a reasonable per-user setting.  Using just EXPIRE 0 to
indicate the client is not permitted to leave mail on the server won't work
in this case won't work, because you'd be falsing advertising that the
server supported UIDL. 

That said, unlike EXPIRE, where we currently have a per-user settings in our
server, we do not have  a per-user setting for LOGIN-DELAY and UIDL.  Thus I
don't feel strongly about the above.  Since the doc is already structured
for the per-user setting case of EXPIRE, it seemed that it would be simple
to treat LOGIN-DELAY and UIDL similiarly to EXPIRE without really adding any
more complexity to the doc.  I thought I would throw the comment out to the
list, since I could see these as being reasonable per-user settings.  I
definitely do not intend this to re-open the doc and re-start the design of
it. If you feel that these would be reasonable per-user settings, then it
may be worth doing a minor change to note that they might be.  I do not want
to open a pandora's box of new changes to the draft, so pls limit any
comments as to whether it is reasonable that these two parameters might be
settable per-user.

-----Original Message-----
From: Randall Gellens [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 6:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: draft-gellens-pop3ext-07.txt


Version -07 of the POP3 Extensions draft was just sent in; it should be
posted soon. If anyone wants it before then, let me know and I'll send
a copy by email.