Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most IMAP clients will popup some error message
That makes sense. The user asked for something, but it couldn't be done, so they get notified. > and maybe fail even more badly Clients must deal with their own bugs. > With NILs user would temporarily see an empty message, And perhaps the user would lose a valuable local copy of the message. Let's go up one level: the client sends LIST, and gets back a list of mailboxes. Then a mailbox is deleted. Then the client tries to SELECT that mailbox. The server doesn't have a chance to say specifically that the mailbox no longer exists. Is BYE preferable to NO here? paul
