The IESG has approved the following document: - 'IMAP UIDBATCHES Extension' (draft-ietf-mailmaint-imap-uidbatches-22.txt) as Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Mail Maintenance Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Andy Newton and Orie Steele. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mailmaint-imap-uidbatches/ Technical Summary The UIDBATCHES extension of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) allows clients to retrieve UID ranges that partition a mailbox's messages into equally sized batches. This enables clients to perform operations such as FETCH, SEARCH, and STORE on specific message batches, providing better control over resource usage and response sizes. The extension is particularly useful with the UIDONLY mode where sequence numbers are unavailable. Working Group Summary There was strong concurrence among those that actually implemented the protocol. Others in the group saw value in the protocol and were in favor of moving the document forward based on the implementation and inter-operation results. There was no opposition to the document. There was no controversy on the technical aspects of the protocol. The main discussion points were about text regarding range sizes and how to make that text sane and unambiguous. Document Quality There are at least three known implementations of this protocol: - Apple iOS Mail client - iCloud IMAP Server - Cyrus IMAP Server (used in production at Fastmail) The Apple client has proven to be interoperable in production with both server implementations for several weeks. The relevant DE was part of the conversation in the working group. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Kenneth Murchison. The Responsible Area Director is Andy Newton. IANA Note The IANA Considerations are complete and correct according to the shepherd and the DE was consulted on this document. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
