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Subject: Re: [9fans] manual suggestions and upas/fs bug
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:05:35 -0400
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> 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