Technical Summary
The MESSAGELIMIT extension of the Internet Message Access Protocol
(RFC 3501/RFC 9051) allows servers to announce a limit on the number
of messages that can be processed in a single
FETCH/SEARCH/STORE/COPY/MOVE/APPEND/EXPUNGE command. This helps
servers to control resource usage when performing various IMAP
operations. This helps clients to know the message limit enforced by
corresponding IMAP server and avoid issuing commands that would
exceed such limit.
Working Group Summary
Quite broad agreement, of those who participated. It was decided to make it
experimental as it is a significant change to IMAP semantics.
The main areas of discussion were around interaction with all the other IMAP
extensions and whether they had been sufficiently thought through, but there
was no real controversy.
Document Quality
There are industry players who have already implemented an initial pass at this,
and we're keen to publish it so they can interoperate, while remaining as an
experimental extension.
Personnel
The Document Shepherd for this document is Bron Gondwana. The
Responsible Area Director is Murray Kucherawy.