[Imap-protocol] QRESYNC and new arrivals which get deleted immediately through VANISHED

[Jan Kundrát]

On 06/12/12 19:35, Alexey Melnikov wrote:

>> Would a proposal for adding "* ARRIVED 64,65,66" to replace EXISTS have

>> any real-world chance of getting accepted?

> Even if it would be, we can't just add "ARRIVED" to QRESYNC, because it

> is an RFC and I believer there are multiple server implementations

> already. We can reopen the document and define a new IMAP capability,

> but in short to medium term your code would have to handle the current

> situation anyway...


I've tried to define an extension adding the ARRIVED response to 
QRESYNC.  The full text in HTML format is available at [1], source in 
rfc2xml format at [2].

I'm not familiar with the IETF process and such, and I'll also 
appreciate some feedback before I submit it further -- so I'm open to 
suggestions about what to do here. If you (anyone on the list) feel like 
this is a waste of time, a great idea or anything in between, please let 
me know.

I've also taken the liberty of not requiring an explicit ENABLE 
QRESYNC-ARRIVED; it seems to me that the mere act of SELECT ... 
QRESYNC-ARRIVED is explicit enough and the extra ENABLE is in fact not 
necessary.

I'll add code supporting this extension to my client shortly (probably 
as "X-DRAFT-I00-QRESYNC-ARRIVED", that's the correct format, right?); if 
any server vendors feel like implementing it as well for 
interoperability testing, I'll offer a beer to the first such person I 
meet in real life again :).

With kind regards
Jan

[1] http://trojita.flaska.net/draft-imap-qresync-arrived-00.html
[2] 
https://gitorious.org/trojita/trojita/blobs/drafts/draft-imap-qresync-arrived-00/docs/proposed-extensions/draft-imap-qresync-arrived.xml

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