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Subject: Re: Protocol Action: IMAP4 Authentication mechanisms to Proposed Standard
From: Terry Gray <gray () cac ! washington ! edu>
Date: 1994-09-09 2:05:49
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I don't know whether a clarifying note is in order or not, but the Subject
line of this announcement was a bit misleading: the most important point
is that the IMAP4 specification itself is now a Proposed Standard. (The
"authentication mechanisms" document is an auxiliary to the main protocol
spec.)
-teg
On Thu, 8 Sep 1994, IESG Secretary wrote:
>
> The IESG has approved the Internet-Drafts:
>
> o "IMAP4 Authentication mechanisms" <draft-ietf-imap-auth-01.txt>
>
> o "INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4"
> <draft-ietf-imap-imap4-05.txt>
>
> as Proposed Standards. The IESG also recommends to the RFC Editor
> that the Internet-Drafts:
>
> o "IMAP4 COMPATIBILITY WITH IMAP2 AND IMAP2BIS"
> <draft-ietf-imap-compat-00.txt>
>
> o "DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC MAIL MODELS IN IMAP4"
> <draft-ietf-imap-model-00.txt>
>
> be published as Informational RFCs.
>
> These documents are the product of the Internet Message Access
> Protocol Working Group. The IESG contact person is John Klensin.
>
> Protocol Write-Up
>
> The Internet Message Access Protocol, Version 4 (IMAP4) allows a
> client to access and manipulate electronic mail messages on a server.
> IMAP4 permits manipulation of remote message folders, called
> "mailboxes", in a way that is functionally equivalent to local
> mailboxes. IMAP4 also provides the capability for an offline client
> to resynchronize with the server.
>
> IMAP4 includes operations for creating, deleting, and renaming
> mailboxes; checking for new messages; permanently removing messages;
> setting and clearing flags; RFC 822 and MIME parsing; searching; and
> selective fetching of message attributes, texts, and portions
> thereof. Messages in IMAP4 are accessed by a set of either sequence
> numbers (relative position from 1 to the number of messages in the
> mailbox) or immutable unique identifiers.
>
> IMAP4 is designed to be upwards compatible from the protocol.
>
> This set of documents specifies the IMAP4 protocol and authentication
> mechanisms for use with it, and provides information about
> compatibility with earlier versions and suggestions about
> disconnected use.
>
> The working group reached consensus on all significant issues. The
> protocol was reviewed for IESG by the Area Director, John Klensin.
>
>
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