RFC 5258 on Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 - LIST Command Extensions
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RFC 5258
Title: Internet Message Access Protocol version
4 - LIST Command Extensions
Author: B. Leiba, A. Melnikov
Status: Standards Track
Date: June 2008
Mailbox: leiba <at> watson.ibm.com,
Alexey.Melnikov <at> isode.com
Pages: 31
Characters: 65074
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-imapext-list-extensions-18.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5258.txt
IMAP4 has two commands for listing mailboxes: LIST and LSUB. As we
have added extensions, such as Mailbox Referrals, that have required
specialized lists we have had to expand the number of list commands,
since each extension must add its function to both LIST and LSUB, and
these commands are not, as they are defined, extensible. If we've
needed the extensions to work together, we've had to add a set of
commands to mix the different options, the set increasing in size
with each new extension. This document describes an extension to the
base LIST command that will allow these additions to be done with
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