Re: [Imap-protocol] IMAP part numbering corner case

Timo Sirainen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 17.8.2012, at 7.17, Philip Guenther wrote:

>> 
>> [Outlook, I'm pretty sure, but it doesn't implement ID]:
>> BODY[TEXT]: The entire inner message
>> BODY[1]: The entire inner message
>> BODY[1.1]: NIL
> 
> This violates this paragraph from RFC 3501, page 55:   
>         A part of type MESSAGE/RFC822 also has nested part numbers,
>         referring to parts of the MESSAGE part's body.
> 
> ...which when combined with the first quote above, means that "1.1" should 
> be a valid specifier for the inner message's content.

Is it valid? 1.1 makes sense when it's a multipart, in which case it refers to the first MIME part, but is it valid when ther's no multipart? Looks like UW-IMAP allows it, but not 1.1.1, so maybe it was meant to be valid. I could add it to my tests..

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