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RFC 7377
Title: IMAP4 Multimailbox SEARCH Extension
Author: B. Leiba, A. Melnikov
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: October 2014
Mailbox: barryleiba@computer.org,
alexey.melnikov@isode.com
Pages: 11
Characters: 24711
Obsoletes: RFC 6237
Updates: RFC 4466
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-appsawg-multimailbox-search-04.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7377.txt
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 the delays caused by many round trips and
not requiring disruption of the currently selected mailbox. This
extension also uses MAILBOX, UIDVALIDITY, 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.
This document is a product of the Applications Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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