Bug#830889: Looks like my patch violates RFC3501

[Doug Torrance]

Hello!

On 07/12/2016 09:31 PM, Nye Liu wrote:
> While it seems you can examine once and keep calling status (violates
> RFC), if you close before calling status, it doesn't work.. you have to
> keep calling examine/close before each status
>
> So three choices:
>
> RFC broken 2 ways (status while folder is open, using status to count
> UNSEEN):
> login
> examine
> while 1
>    status (MESSAGES UNSEEN)
> done
>
> Fully RFC compliant:
>
> login
> examine
> while 1
>    search(SEEN)
>    search(UNSEEN)
> done
>
> or
>
> Somewhat RFC broken (uses status to count UNSEEN)
>
> login
> while 1
>    examine
>    close
>    status (MESSAGES UNSEEN)
> done
>
> The downside to search is that the results might be very long for a
> large mailbox with many, many messages, and that result has to be split up.

I was wondering if you had any updates about this bug.

Is violating RFC3501 a dealbreaker?  Should wmbiff use search, or should 
we go ahead and release a version with your original patch to fix the bug?

Thanks again!
Doug