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

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