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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1988 19:37:45 PST
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: here's another imapd bug
To: yeager@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
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I do SELECT /usr/spool/bboard/su-etc.txt to read the bboards.  imapd should
default the .txt part.  Also, it notes that new messages are recent but it
still makes all the old messages be unseen.  This screws up MS's read default,
which is READ UNSEEN.  Seen vs. Unseen should match the file's last read date.

This seems to have no correspondence with how MM.NEW's BBOARD command works.
Why?

I wish that instead of sending "NO" for an illegal operation (EXPUNGE or STORE
on a read-only file -- you say "Access denied") that you answer OK with
"EXPUNGE ignored for read-only file" ala the DEC-20 server.  While arguably
the NO is closer to the protocol answering with an OK is more useful.

-- Mark --


