Re: [Imap-protocol] GMail SPECIAL-USE LIST

Brandon Long <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <CABa8R6tZYMmpjY+w5Y8Cwv2VM3pALYEpTH5f1XAoKkTJYYukew@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Jan Kundrát <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/15/12 22:45, Brandon Long wrote:
>
>> For those keeping track at home, we had to revert this because a minor
>> phone client wasn't able to handle the extended syntax, hard coding a
>> small set of acceptable list-flags.  We'll probably re-enable it as soon
>> as they have a fix.
>>
>
> I assume you are not likely to name the vendor in question. I was
> wondering what the engineering reason for refusing to accept unknown list
> flags might be...
>

Someone made an easy mistake?  Unless you pay close attention to the RFC
EBNF, its probably easy to make that mistake.

They haven't shared with me their reasoning.  Or their planned fix, though
I did point out that section of the EBNF to them, so hopefully they will
fix it the right way instead of just adding the SPECIAL-USE flags to their
supported list.

Brandon


>
> With kind regards
> Jan
>
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