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- > OK, I understand the problem better now. For APPEND I was
- > thinking that it was recent enough and not so widely
- > implemented that we might be able to afford an incompatible
- > change. Stated another way, I was thinking that the amount of
- > inconsistent behavior experienced by users would be small when considering
- > that IMAP (esp APPEND) is at the beginning of it's life now. I infer
- > that Mark doesn't agree with this. I'd like to hear what
- > other folks on this list think.
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- IMAP has been around for quite a long time.
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- The changes not too long ago regarding CREATE and it's relation to
- MOVE/COPY already broke compatibility on clients, unless you pull some real
- hacks to parse telemetry messages and use that to determine behaviour. This
- makes the exact text of the error messages an (unofficial) part of the
- protocol. If behaviour is changed for APPEND, let's at least use the same back
- door for negotiating differences. I agree, there probably aren't many APPEND
- implementations out there, but there might be a few. If it is to be changed,
- the sooner, the better; while the count of affected clients is still reasonably
- low....
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- mike
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