Re: What to do about SEARCH?

Frank Tegtmeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Policy, but yes, I would expect it to be hidden from normal 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?

Yes, servers should never deal with anything else.  They don't even know what
timezone the client is in.

> This would require clients to implement time zones.

If they want to display/provide time in local time format, yes, but this is
where it belongs.

Charles
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