On Wed Jun 21 07:14:38 2006, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> Which leads me to conclude we desperately need a "Doh! Don't Do
> IMAP Trash This Way, And Here's Why" RFC. Written in little tiny
> syllables, with a lot of pictures.
>
>
Well, I basically agree, so whilst I've not done the pictures, I've
done my best to find and document the reasons why trash mailboxes are
a bad idea on IMAP. Strangely, while thinking about them, I found a
couple more (such as interaction with shared mailboxes, and reliance
on UIDPLUS for any reasonable efficiency).
See
http://svn.dave.cridland.net/svn/ietf-drafts/draft-cridland-imap-trash.xml
for some XML2RFC source, or temporarily
http://dave.cridland.net/draft-cridland-imap-trash.txt
I suggest that discussion of this, if anyone feels it's worthwhile,
should probably take place on the IMAP protocol list, rather than
here.
Dave.
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