On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Dave Cridland wrote: > > For IMAP, where connection setup time is, in principle, a very small part of > the total session time, it seems odd you're advocating that nobody should > worry about adding round-trips when there's been substantial effort in > reducing round-trips in precisely this area. Witness the way that the > CAPABILITY command has been deprecated into a CAPABILITY response code, or the > SASL-IR proposal, or RECONNECT - the list just goes on. A good way of saving a couple of RTTs is to use imaps rather than imap+STARTTLS. It's a pity that the equivalent for message submission has been rescinded, despite the fact that it's still widely used. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@xxxxxxxx> http://dotat.at/ BISCAY: WEST 5 OR 6 BECOMING VARIABLE 3 OR 4. SHOWERS AT FIRST. MODERATE OR GOOD. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf