RFC - 3502

Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - MULTIAPPEND Extension

Original:	ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3502.txt
Authors:	M. Crispin [University of Washington]
Date:	March 2003
Category:	Proposed Standard

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Updated by:
RFC-4469prop	Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) CATENATE Extension
RFC-4466prop	Collected Extensions to IMAP4 ABNF

Referred by:	6 RFC
Refers to:	8 RFC

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Status

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

This document describes the multiappending extension to the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) (RFC 3501^prop). This extension provides substantial performance improvements for IMAP clients which upload multiple messages at a time to a mailbox on the server. A server which supports this extension indicates this with a capability name of "MULTIAPPEND". Terminology The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [KEYWORDS].

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