Re: APPEND vs RFC2822 vs STD0011

2003-07-09 Thread John Alton Tamplin
Edward Reid wrote: What RFC3501 says is The APPEND command appends the literal argument as a new message to the end of the specified destination mailbox. This argument SHOULD be in the format of an [RFC-2822] message. Since it's the client that constructs the literal, it appears t

Re: APPEND vs RFC2822 vs STD0011

2003-07-09 Thread Edward Reid
At 12:28 PM -0400 7/9/03, Cyrus Daboo wrote: > On the NULL issue, IMAP does not allow bare NULLs in any data that >either > the server or client sends. If you check the formal syntax you will >see > that the 'literal' element used to send the message content in an >APPEND > explicitly excludes NULL

Re: APPEND vs RFC2822 vs STD0011

2003-07-09 Thread John Alton Tamplin
Edward Reid wrote: Obviously there's a problem with the RFC in this case, in that it makes a recommendation to the client but no recommendation or requirement for the server. But the RFC clearly says that the client is allowed to store a non-RFC2822 message, if it has a valid reason. Nowhere do I

Re: APPEND vs RFC2822 vs STD0011

2003-07-09 Thread Cyrus Daboo
Hi Edward, --On Wednesday, July 9, 2003 11:58 AM -0400 Edward Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Allowing null characters in particular is problematic for any code |> that |> uses null-terminated strings for messages or parts of messages, and | | Using null-terminated strings with data that migh

Re: APPEND vs RFC2822 vs STD0011

2003-07-09 Thread Edward Reid
At 01:30 PM -0400 7/7/03, John Alton Tamplin wrote: > That's what sieve is for -- do it in the server and you won't have to > rely on a particular client doing it for you. OTOH, if I do it in my client, then I don't have to rely on all the servers I have to deal with all running sieve. They don't,

Re: APPEND vs RFC2822 vs STD0011

2003-07-07 Thread John Alton Tamplin
Edward Reid wrote: The mail provider (MX) for my domain, fastmail.fm, runs cyrus. I use Eudora (for Mac, v5.2), mostly in POP mode, but I use some IMAP features too. In particular, some of my filters copy incoming (POP) messages to an IMAP mailbox at fastmail.fm. That's where the problems start. S

APPEND vs RFC2822 vs STD0011

2003-07-07 Thread Edward Reid
The mail provider (MX) for my domain, fastmail.fm, runs cyrus. I use Eudora (for Mac, v5.2), mostly in POP mode, but I use some IMAP features too. In particular, some of my filters copy incoming (POP) messages to an IMAP mailbox at fastmail.fm. That's where the problems start. Some of these incomi