[Imap-protocol] Unordered FETCH replies

Arnt Gulbrandsen arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no
Sun Jul 22 23:24:32 PDT 2007


Timo Sirainen writes:
> Has anyone tried how badly clients would break if FETCH didn't send 
> replies ordered by the sequence number?

Yes, and no breakage. Clients break on many things they should handle 
(try sending lowercase OK/NO/BAD ;) but that one seems fine.

(We changed to strict increasing order later because of testing constraints.)

Arnt


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