[Dovecot] CATENATE/literal8 issue

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at curecanti.org>:

> It is concerning because RFC 4466 indicates that literal8's are  
> allowed for both APPEND and MULTIAPPEND, which is essentially an  
> extended APPEND.  But RFC 4469 defines CATENATE TEXT as literal only:
>
> RFC 4466:
>    append-data     = literal / literal8 / append-data-ext
>
> RFC 4469:
>    append-data =/ "CATENATE" SP "(" cat-part *(SP cat-part) ")"
>    cat-part = text-literal / url
>    text-literal = "TEXT" SP literal
>
> To me CATENATE =~ MULTIAPPEND - it is just another form of an  
> extended APPEND.  Not sure why it shouldn't be allowed there.

Answered my own question here - sure enough, it was an oversight:

http://osdir.com/ml/ietf.imapext/2006-03/msg00030.html

michael