[Imap-protocol] SELECT of same mailbox

[Alexey Melnikov]

Mark Crispin wrote:

> I would not object to adding a more specific statement of the general 
> principle of BAD.

I think that would be very valuable.

> Nor would I object to adding an example that refers to and restates 
> this principle, e.g.
>     Consequently, if a mailbox is selected and a SELECT command that
>     fails is attempted, no mailbox is selected.
>
>     Note: remember that a BAD response is not a failure; it indicates
>     that the command itself was not recognized.  Therefore, a string
>     that happens to have SELECT as the second space-delimited token
>     is not a SELECT command unless it complies with the syntax of the
>     SELECT command; and if it does not comply with the syntax of the
>     SELECT command it does not cause the unselection mentioned above.
>     This applies not just to SELECT but to all commands, thus the fact
>     that a note like this doesn't appear with other commands should
>     not be construed to state that this does not apply to those other
>     comands.
>
> However, I think that doing this is silly.

A shorter version of this text would be still useful.