Subject: Protocol Action: INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - MULTIAPPEND EXTENSION to Proposed Standard

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:04:27 -0500

The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS 
PROTOCOL - MULTIAPPEND EXTENSION' <draft-crispin-imap-multiappend-07.txt> 
as a Proposed Standard. This has been reviewed in the IETF but is not 
the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ned 
Freed and Patrik Faltstrom.

Technical Summary

This document describes the multiappending extension to the [IMAP] 
protocol. This extension provides substantial performance improvements 
for IMAP clients which upload multiple messages at a time to a mailbox 
on the server.

Working Group Summary

This document was reviewed by the IMAPEXT working group but is not a
product of that group.

Protocol Quality

This document was reviewed for the IESG by Ned Freed.

RFC Editor Note:

The example in section 6.3.11 should be changed to read:

 Example: C: A003 APPEND saved-messages (\Seen) {329}
 	S: + Ready for literal data
      C: Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 21:52:25 -0800 (PST)
      C: From: Fred Foobar <[email-masked]>
      C: Subject: afternoon meeting
      C: To: [email-masked]
      C: Message-Id: <[email-masked]>
      C: MIME-Version: 1.0
      C: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
      C:
      C: Hello Joe, do you think we can meet at 3:30 tomorrow?
      C: (\Seen) " 7-Feb-1994 22:43:04 -0800" {286}
      S: + Ready for literal data
      C: Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 22:43:04 -0800 (PST)
      C: From: Joe Mooch <[email-masked]>
      C: Subject: Re: afternoon meeting
      C: To: [email-masked]
      C: Message-Id: <[email-masked]>
      C: MIME-Version: 1.0
      C: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
      C:
      C: 3:30 is fine with me.
      C:
      S: A003 OK APPEND completed
      C: A004 APPEND bogusname (\Flagged) {1023}
      S: A004 NO [TRYCREATE] No such mailbox as bogusname
      C: A005 APPEND test (\Flagged) {100}
      S: + Ready for literal data
      C: Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:43:04 -0800 (PST)
      C: From: Fred Foobar <[email-masked]>
      C: Subject: hmm...
      C: {35403}
      S: A005 NO APPEND failed: Disk quota exceeded

 The string literal lengths in the above have been adjusted but should
 be checked by the author prior to publication.