| From: | Otto Leung <oleung@traversenetworks.com> |
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| To: | imap-protocol@u.washington.edu |
| Date: | Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:34:36 -0000 |
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Why is Partial Fetch important to be implemented on the server side? Thanks, O
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| From: | MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU |
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Otto Leung wrote: > Why is Partial Fetch important to be implemented on the server side? It is documented as mandatory-to-implement in the specification. Consequently, there are clients which depend upon it being implemented, and these clients will not function if it is not implemented. An IMAP server implementation MUST implement all mandatory-to-implement facilities in the base specification. Unless something is explicitly documented as optional (or "MAY") in the base specification, then it is mandatory-to-implement. In general, the only optional facilities in the IMAP base specification are the ability to reference non-INBOX mailboxes (the server can reply NO to some other mailbox name) and the ability to SEARCH character sets other than US-ASCII and UTF-8. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
| From: | arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no |
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Otto Leung writes: > Why is Partial Fetch important to be implemented on the server side? Without partial fetches, the client has to download all attachments whenever it needs anything. Do you think that's important? Arnt