Re: What to do about SEARCH?

Frank Tegtmeyer <[email protected]> 06 Mar 2003 22:19:52 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.bikini.devel
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Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> writes:

> Perhaps add this as an optional argument to SEARCH?

The spec should urge client implementors to hide this under "advanced
options" then because the behaviour (delivery time vs. header) *will*
confuse many users.

>   SEARCH <folder-path> <header-pattern> <match-pattern> <timestamp-range>
> 
> where timestamp-range is two dates in the YYYYMMDD"T"HHMMSS"Z" format,
> separated by "-".

Looks good and is simple to parse. Base is UTC then? This would
require clients to implement time zones.

Regards, Frank