RE: I-D ACTION:draft-neystadt-imap-status-counters-00.txt

> In draft-1, could you the non-ascii junk? I see various ü and Æ
> characters.

I was told already, I've used winword template that produced this junk :(
I'll clean it up.

> It seems unjustified. You mention one application for it, and 
> it sounds as
> if the code belongs in that IMAP client. If you think that code really
> belongs in IMAP servers, I suggest showing more uses in the draft.

This is today handled on clients and is used to display counters either in
folders tree or on some general summary screen. 
There are two main benefits of moving this logic to server:

- in order to build them you must screen all message headers in the mailbox,
this is very slow and traffic intensive if done on client
- server can store the counters and then incrementally update the counters
when new messages are delivered (in MTA) or expunged and server do different
clients. This saves much of processing power for servers.

John Neystadt
[email protected]
http://www.neystadt.org/john/