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Re: Questions and remarks on draft-ietf-sieve-include-01.txt

2009-05-05 03:04:12

Of course I meant draft-ietf-sieve-INCLUDE-02. I added an informative
reference to managesieve, hence the copy-paste buffer error :)

On Mon, 04 May 2009 14:24:51 -0700, Aaron Stone 
<aaron(_at_)serendipity(_dot_)cx>
wrote:
I'm posting draft-ietf-managesieve-02 that addresses these comments.
Thank
you!

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:36:20 +0200, Arnt Gulbrandsen
<arnt(_at_)gulbrandsen(_dot_)priv(_dot_)no> wrote:
Aaron Stone answers Stephan Bosch:
 - Where the ManageSieve protocol specifies what characters are 
 allowed for a script name, the include extension for the Sieve 
 language does not. Would it be useful to adopt the same 
 limitations? Especially things like '/' can cause problems.

Good suggestion. I think this makes sense to give a consistent opinion 
on what script names should look like, but on the other hand, perhaps 
it's possible that someone isn't using ManageSieve but IS using 
include and might need to get at weird names? Do we care in that 
case?

If so, then they probably will use managesieve at some point anyway.

 - The global command is required to follow 'require' or another 
 global command. I am worried what happens when other extensions 
 have commands with similar requirements. Shouldn't we account for 
 this eventuality?

I don't like this restriction anyways. Any objection to lifting it?

(I don't feel qualified to have an opinion on this issue.)

 - The scope of the :once modifier could be a bit confusing. I am  
 assuming it holds for the whole Sieve execution and not only for 
 the identical include commands within the current script.

Correct. Could you suggest how I might clarify that it's the whole 
execution? I feel like I'm missing the right word for being inside 
one file vs. being inside one delivery/execution instance.

I think that's enough of an issue that it's worth a whole sentence or
two.

I like precise words. But sometimes you can be as precise as you want, 
and someone will read the text after being up half the night with the 
crying baby and won't get it.

Or zero words perhaps. Why is :once justified? is "mandatory :once" or 
":once not supported" good enough?

Arnt