Re: [EAI] How to prevent up-conversion (Re: Respawn "Messages on original form" (Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-eai-imap-utf8-01.txt))

["Charles Lindsey" <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:44:39 -0000, John C Klensin <klensin at jck.com> wrote:
> My only concern about that reasoning is that there are some advantages  
> of maintaining an abstraction between "what is in the mailstore" and  
> "the image/view of the mailstore content that is seen by a client".  I  
> don't think the above prevents that, but we need to be careful about  
> reading.  Access to the mailstore version on a "by reference" basis is  
> pretty close to a showstopper for me: we should not be specifying those  
> formats at all, only what must be able to be produced from them.
I think one of the primary requirements is that the user should be able to  
demand, and be given, a copy of the message as actually received by the  
MDA (plus maybe a few tracing headers added by the storage agent).

Which strongly suggests (but does not mandate) that that be what is kept  
in the mailstore.

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