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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] manual suggestions and upas/fs bug
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:05:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bde60c923553e4ab80380c9fca1b8b85@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)

> We have both client and server bugs here.

Thanks for your pointers.  The IMAP client code has been
cobbled together by a few people (myself included) who knew
nothing about IMAP before working on it, so it's not surprising
that these inefficiencies exist.

> And *again* the server said there were no messages, thus
>
>    -> 9X4 UID FETCH 1:* UID
>
> is completely bogus. That message range is invalid, and the client
> should know that. However, the server should be responding with
> something like
>
>    9X4 BAD Invalid sequence in FETCH

I don't see why it's invalid and not just empty,
but I agree that it is inefficient for the client to
be sending it.

Russ



             reply	other threads:[~2002-09-17 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-17 23:05 Russ Cox [this message]
2002-09-18  2:06 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-09-18 17:03   ` rob pike, esq.
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-17 13:28 Russ Cox
2002-09-17  4:58 Russ Cox
2002-09-17  4:34 David Swasey
2002-09-17 20:18 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-09-16 19:29 David Swasey
2002-09-17  1:58 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-09-17  8:47 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-09-17  9:17   ` Lucio De Re
2002-09-18  8:37     ` Douglas A. Gwyn

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