[Imap-protocol] Unordered FETCH replies

[Mark Crispin]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Has anyone tried how badly clients would break if FETCH didn't send
> replies ordered by the sequence number? So for example:
>
> 1 fetch 1:* body.peek[]
> * 3 FETCH (BODY.PEEK[] "")
> * 1 FETCH (BODY.PEEK[] "")
> * 2 FETCH (BODY.PEEK[] "")
> 1 OK

No compliant client will break with this.

Nor, for that matter, will a compliant client break if the response for a 
message is broken into multiple FETCH responses.  Under certain 
circumstances, UW imapd will do that.

Proper handling of this is a requirement of IMAP clients.

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