On 02 Jan 2003 11:15:12 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > The latest IMAP4rev1 draft
It's already gone to the RFC editor, after numerous last calls. > specifies that UNSEEN reply is required after > SELECT and EXAMINE, but it doesn't say what to do when there are no > unseen messages. What to do is not send the UNSEEN reply at all. > Simply not sending it doesn't seem a good idea, since client would have > to issue a SEARCH UNSEEN only to find out there's none. This isn't as bad as it sounds. The only point to the UNSEEN reply is to enable a client which is giving a sequence/UID order view to position the message browser at the first unseen message. But most clients these days are going to thread; in which case this information isn't particularly useful.
