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reject incompatibility

2006-07-27 05:51:00

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 17:39 +0100, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
No clear consensus to change SHOULD to MUST or to MAY. Suggestion how to 
proceed:
a). Leave SHOULD in the document.
b). Add explanatory text detailing why SHOULD is here. This will help 
implementers to decide when to conform or violate the SHOULD.
c). List incompatible extensions explicitly, there is no reason why some 
actions like setflag/addflag/removeflag (IMAP flags) should be 
incompatible with reject. Besides, it is difficult (pointless?) to put 
such an open ended restriction on all future extensions.

here's today's text for reference:

   Implementations MUST prohibit the execution of more than one reject
   in a SIEVE script. "Reject" is also incompatible with the
   "vacation" [VACATION] extensions. Implementations SHOULD prohibit
   reject when used with other actions, in particular "reject" SHOULD
   be incompatible with keep, fileinto, redirect and discard.
 
I suggest this is simplified to

   Implementations MUST prohibit the execution of more than one "reject"
   in a Sieve script.  Implementations MUST prohibit the use of "reject"
   with actions that cause mail delivery, such as "keep", "fileinto",
   "redirect" and "vacation" [VACATION].

-- 
Kjetil T.


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