Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-melnikov-imap-disc-01.txt

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:35:03 -0400

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	Title		: Synchronization operations for disconnected IMAP4 clients
	Author(s)	: A. Melnikov
	Filename	: draft-melnikov-imap-disc-01.txt
	Pages		: 
	Date		: 16-Aug-02
	
This document attempts to address some of the issues involved in building a disconnected IMAP4 client.  In particular, it deals with the issuesof what might be called the 'driver' portion of the synchronizationtool: the portion of the code responsible for issuing the correct set of IMAP4 commands to synchronize the disconnected client in the way that is most likely to make the human who uses the disconnected
client happy.
This note describes different strategies that can be used by disconnected clients as well as shows how to use IMAP protocol in order to minimize the time of synchronization process.

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