Hi Bob -
Please review the following rewritten RFC 3501 errata and see if it
matches with your criteria for inclusion on the RFC Editor errata.
Thanks,
-- Mark --
Section 2.3.1.1, page 8:
old:
A 32-bit value assigned to each message, which when used with the
unique identifier validity value (see below) forms a 64-bit value
that MUST NOT refer to any other message in the mailbox or any
subsequent mailbox with the same name forever. Unique identifiers
[...]
new:
An unsigned 32-bit value assigned to each message, which when used
with the unique identifier validity value (see below) forms a 64-bit
value that MUST NOT refer to any other message in the mailbox or any
subsequent mailbox with the same name forever. Unique identifiers
[...]
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Section 2.3.1.1, page 9:
old:
Associated with every mailbox are two values which aid in unique
identifier handling: the next unique identifier value and the unique
identifier validity value.
new:
Associated with every mailbox are two 32-bit unsigned values which
aid in unique identifier handling: the next unique identifier value
(UIDNEXT) and the unique identifier validity value (UIDVALIDITY).
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Section 5.1.3, page 19:
old:
All other characters (octet values 0x00-0x1f and 0x7f-0xff) are
represented in modified BASE64, with a further modification from
[UTF-7] that "," is used instead of "/". Modified BASE64 MUST NOT be
used to represent any printing US-ASCII character which can represent
itself.
new:
All other characters (octet values 0x00-0x1f and 0x7f-0xff) are
represented in modified BASE64, with a further modification from
[UTF-7] that "," is used instead of "/". Modified BASE64 MUST NOT be
used to represent any printing US-ASCII character which can represent
itself. Only characters inside the modified BASE64 alphabet are
permitted in modified BASE64 text.
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Section 5.5, page 22:
old:
Note: UID FETCH, UID STORE, and UID SEARCH are different
commands from FETCH, STORE, and SEARCH. If the client
sends a UID command, it must wait for a completion result
response before sending a command with message sequence
numbers.
new:
Note: EXPUNGE responses are permitted while UID FETCH,
UID STORE, and UID SEARCH are in progress. If the client
sends a UID command, it must wait for a completion result
response before sending a command which uses message
sequence numbers (this may include UID SEARCH). Any
message sequence numbers in an argument to UID SEARCH
are associated with messages prior to the effect of any
untagged EXPUNGE returned by the UID SEARCH.
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Section 6.2.1, page 27:
old:
Once [TLS] has been started, the client MUST discard cached
information about server capabilities and SHOULD re-issue the
CAPABILITY command. This is necessary to protect against man-in-
the-middle attacks which alter the capabilities list prior to
STARTTLS. The server MAY advertise different capabilities after
STARTTLS.
new:
Once [TLS] has been started, the client MUST discard cached
information about server capabilities and SHOULD re-issue the
CAPABILITY command. This is necessary to protect against man-in-
the-middle attacks which alter the capabilities list prior to
STARTTLS. The server MAY advertise different capabilities, and
in particular SHOULD NOT advertise the STARTTLS capability, after
a successful STARTTLS command.
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Section 6.2.2, page 28:
old:
The authentication protocol exchange consists of a series of
server challenges and client responses that are specific to the
authentication mechanism. A server challenge consists of a
command continuation request response with the "+" token followed
by a BASE64 encoded string. The client response consists of a
single line consisting of a BASE64 encoded string. If the client
wishes to cancel an authentication exchange, it issues a line
consisting of a single "*". If the server receives such a
response, it MUST reject the AUTHENTICATE command by sending a
tagged BAD response.
new:
The authentication protocol exchange consists of a series of
server challenges and client responses that are specific to the
authentication mechanism. A server challenge consists of a
command continuation request response with the "+" token followed
by a BASE64 encoded string. The client response consists of a
single line consisting of a BASE64 encoded string. If the client
wishes to cancel an authentication exchange, it issues a line
consisting of a single "*". If the server receives such a
response, or if it receives an invalid BASE64 string (e.g.
characters outside the BASE64 alphabet, or non-terminal "="), it
MUST reject the AUTHENTICATE command by sending a tagged BAD
response.
Section 6.3.4, page 36:
old:
It is permitted to delete a name that has inferior hierarchical
names and does not have the \Noselect mailbox name attribute. In
this case, all messages in that mailbox are removed, and the name
will acquire the \Noselect mailbox name attribute.
new:
It is permitted to delete a name that has inferior hierarchical
names and does not have the \Noselect mailbox name attribute. If
the server implementation does not permit deleting the name while
inferior hierarchical names exists the \Noselect mailbox name
attribute is set for that name. In any case, all mailboxes in
that mailbox are removed by the DELETE command.
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Section 6.4.3, page 49:
old:
The EXPUNGE command permanently removes all messages that have the
\Deleted flag set from the currently selected mailbox. Before
returning an OK to the client, an untagged EXPUNGE response is
sent for each message that is removed.
new:
The EXPUNGE command permanently removes all messages that have the
\Deleted flag set from the currently selected mailbox. Before
returning an OK to the client, an untagged EXPUNGE response is
sent for each message that is removed. Note that if any messages
with the \Recent flag set are expunged, an untagged RECENT response
is sent after the untagged EXPUNGE(s) to update the client's count
of RECENT messages.
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Section 6.4.4, page 50:
old:
[MIME-IMB] content transfer encodings, and [MIME-HDRS] strings in
[RFC-2822]/[MIME-IMB] headers, MUST be decoded before comparing
text in a [CHARSET] other than US-ASCII. US-ASCII MUST be
supported; other [CHARSET]s MAY be supported.
new:
[MIME-IMB] content transfer encodings, and [MIME-HDRS] strings in
[RFC-2822]/[MIME-IMB] headers, MUST be decoded before comparing
text. US-ASCII MUST be supported; other [CHARSET]s MAY be supported.
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Section 6.4.4, page 54:
old:
C: A284 SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 TEXT {6}
S: + Ready for literal text
C: XXXXXX
S: * SEARCH 43
S: A284 OK SEARCH completed
new:
C: A284 SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 TEXT {6}
S: + Ready for literal text
C: XXXXXX
S: * SEARCH 43
S: A284 OK SEARCH completed
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Section 7.2.2, page 70:
old:
If it is not feasible for the server to determine whether or not
the mailbox is "interesting", or if the name is a \Noselect name,
the server SHOULD NOT send either \Marked or \Unmarked.
new:
If it is not feasible for the server to determine whether or not
the mailbox is "interesting", the server SHOULD NOT send either
\Marked or \Unmarked. The server MUST NOT send more than one of
\Marked, \Unmarked, and \Noselect for a single mailbox, and MAY
send none of these.
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Formal Syntax, Page 90:
old:
status-att-list = status-att SP number *(SP status-att SP number)
new:
status-att-val = ("MESSAGES" SP number) / ("RECENT" SP number) /
("UIDNEXT" SP nz-number) / ("UIDVALIDITY" SP nz-number) /
("UNSEEN" SP number)
status-att-list = status-att-val *(SP status-att-val)
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