The IESG has received a request from the Applications Area Working Group WG (appsawg) to consider the following document: - 'IMAP4 Multimailbox SEARCH Extension' <draft-ietf-appsawg-multimailbox-search-01.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2014-07-21. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract The IMAP4 specification allows the searching of only the selected mailbox. A user often wants to search multiple mailboxes, and a client that wishes to support this must issue a series of SELECT and SEARCH commands, waiting for each to complete before moving on to the next. This extension allows a client to search multiple mailboxes with one command, limiting round trips delay, and not requiring disruption of the currently selected mailbox. This extension also uses MAILBOX and TAG fields in ESEARCH responses, allowing a client to pipeline the searches if it chooses. This document updates RFC 4466 and obsoletes RFC 6237. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-multimailbox-search/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-multimailbox-search/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
