The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - MOVE Extension' (draft-ietf-imapmove-command-05.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the IMAP MOVE extension Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Barry Leiba and Pete Resnick. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-imapmove-command/ Technical Summary This document defines an IMAP extension to move messages from one mailbox to another. This function (very common in MUA UIs) is not provided by stock IMAP, and clients have to use a combination of UID STORE, UID COPY and EXPUNGE, and cope with partial failures and side effects. The document is targeted to become as Standards Track document, which is appropriate for this type of document. Working Group Summary There was some discussion in the WG about whether MOVE command (as opposed to just UID MOVE) should be defined in the document or not. Consensus was that there was no reason not to define it (this preserves symmetry with other IMAP commands that operate on a group of messages.) There was also a discussion on whether multiple pipelined MOVE commands should be allowed or not. None of these discussions were particularly heated or long lived. Document Quality The document was extensively reviewed by IMAP experts and that is the most important type of review for it. There are multiple implementations of this IMAP extension in both clients and servers. More than 5 different servers implement it already. Personnel Alexey Melnikov is the document shepherd. Barry Leiba is the responsible AD.
