[Imap-protocol] SELECT of same mailbox

Alexey Melnikov alexey.melnikov at isode.com
Wed Sep 7 09:22:39 PDT 2005


Mark Crispin wrote:

> My preference would be either to:
>  . leave the current wording as-is
> or
>  . change it to an explicit statement that server behavior (and 
> subsequent
>    state of \Recent flags) with extraneous SELECT is undefined and
>    implementation dependent.
> That way, existing servers are not declared broken, and clients are 
> put on notice not to use this as a hack to clear \Recent flags.

I would prefer the latter.



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