Technical Summary
Over the years many documents have added syntactic extensions to the
base IMAP commands described in RFC 3501. For ease of reference this
document collects most of these ABNF changes in one place. This document
updates the ABNF specifications found in RFCs 2088, 2342, 3501, 3502
and 3516. It also includes part of the errata to RFC 3501.
Working Group Summary
This document has been reviewed by the IMAPEXT and LEMONADE working
groups, though it is the work of an individual submitter. Review
comments have been addressed in the document.
Protocol Quality
Scott Hollenbeck has reviewed this specification for the IESG.
Note to the RFC Editor:
In section 3, please change these two items:
OLD:
search = "SEARCH" [search-return-opts]
search-program
search-program = [SP "CHARSET" SP charset] 1*(SP search-key)
;; CHARSET argument to SEARCH MUST be
;; registered with IANA.
NEW:
search = "SEARCH" [search-return-opts]
SP search-program
search-program = ["CHARSET" SP charset SP]
search-key *(SP search-key)
;; CHARSET argument to SEARCH MUST be
;; registered with IANA.