Treating it as babble only works if the server was able to parse enough of the note to send some envelope information back. I'm not wondering about the case of a tagged OK with a [PARSE] response, but rather how clients might react to a tagged NO with a [PARSE] response in response to a FETCH
I don't think that you should ever issue a tagged NO in response to a FETCH. You should always make a best effort to parse what's there, and fill in with NILs on what you can't.
-- Mark --
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