The IESG has approved the following document: - 'IMAP extension for referencing the last SEARCH result ' <draft-melnikov-imap-search-res-07.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Chris Newman. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-melnikov-imap-search-res-07.txt Technical Summary Many IMAP clients use the result of a SEARCH command as the input to perform another operation, for example fetching the found messages, deleting them or copying them to another mailbox. This can be achieved using standard IMAP operations described in RFC 3501, however this would be suboptimal: the server will send the list of found messages to the client, after that the client will have to parse the list, reformat it and send it back to the server. The client can't pipeline the SEARCH command with the subsequent command, and, as a result, the server might not be able to perform some optimizations. This document proposes an IMAP extension that allows a client to tell a server to use the result of a SEARCH (or UID SEARCH) command as an input to any subsequent command. Working Group Summary This is an individual submission. Protocol Quality This was reviewed for the IESG by Chris Newman. There has been some discussion about the details of when the server resets the saved search list to the empty set. There are already 2 server implementations of this document. At least one more client and server vendor is interested in implementing the specification. Spencer Dawkins was the GEN-ART reviewer. Note to RFC Editor Example 9, OLD: S: H283 OK SEARCH completed S: H282 OK SEARCH completed NEW: S: H282 OK SEARCH completed S: H283 OK SEARCH completed ^^^^ Section 2.4, first paragraph, OLD: are required to implement [ESEARCH] and to conform to additional NEW: MUST implement [ESEARCH] and conform to additional _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
