[Imap-protocol] FETCH (rfc822) response

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 09:30 -0500, Rick Sanders wrote:

> I'm working with a server whose response to a FETCH (rfc822) is 

> different than I have seen before.

> 

>  >> 1 FETCH 1 (rfc822)

> << * 1 EXISTS

> << * 1 FETCH (RFC822[] {0}

> 

> I'm used to seeing something like * 1 FETCH (RFC822 {1522}.  In this 

> case I have to send a separate 1 FETCH 1 (rfc822.size) command to get 

> the message size:   << 1 FETCH (rfc822.size 5149).

> 

> Just curious, is this compliant?


No, the server is broken. But you could try to work around it with
fetching BODY.PEEK[] instead.