Re: [Imap-protocol] Re: BINARY for broken MIME parts

Alexey Melnikov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/12/2012 11:55, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 December 2012 07:16:35 CEST, Brandon Long wrote:
>> I would think [PARSE] would be more appropriate than UNKNOWN-CTE.  Or 
>> just stick with [ALERT].
>
> ALERT is reserved for situations which MUST be communicated to the 
> user. If the IMAP server cannot decode a particular CTE, another 
> response code shall be used -- this is a condition where the client 
> shall make its decision on how to proceed, but definitely not by 
> showing an ALERT to the user.
>
> Please, don't use ALERT for this.
+1.

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