Mark Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The more difficult issue is if the client asked for BODY[TEXT]<386.16384>.
> I contend that BODY[TEXT]<386> (zero bytes starting at byte 386) in no way
> implies that byte 385 exists, and thus the server should respond in the
> same way rather than issuing an error. Of course, it is difficult to
> imagine a client actually generating BODY[TEXT]<386.16384> without already
> having a byte 385.
Your faith in mankind is touching :)
All that's necessary is a client author with a piss-poor attitude and the
programming skills to match. Someone like the author of... no, I'll be
polite. It's not an IMAP client, anyway.
If <omitted> were an IMAP client, it would open sixteen IMAP connections,
select the same mailbox (I can hear you protesting already, Mark) and
maximize its share of the available bandwidth by issuing sixteen commands
simultaneously:
FETCH 42 (BODY[TEXT]<0.16384>
FETCH 42 (BODY[TEXT]<16384.16384>
FETCH 42 (BODY[TEXT]<32768.16384>
...
I'm not joking. I wish I were.
--Arnt
