[lemonade] Open Issues with IMAP CONVERT

[Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov at isode.com>]

Hi,
I've done some work on updating the CONVERT draft. I found more issues 
that need to be discussed.
Some of the major issues are listed below:

1). Do we want to allow for conversion of non-leaf bodyparts? E.g. 
multipart/related to application/pdf?

I am slightly in favor of allowing this, even though I don't think that 
any server should be required to
perform such conversions.

On a related note: should we allow to convert to non-leaf bodyparts?

2). draft -05 currently allows for default conversion (i.e. "just 
convert to any media type, you know best").
I don't think this should be allowed and I suggest removing this feature 
from ABNF.

Somewhat related to this: is the server allowed to convert to image/png 
instead of image/jpeg when .STRICT
suffix to CONVERT is not specified? (I don't think this should be allowed)

3). There is one big issue surrounding INFORMATIONLOSS. I will publish 
an updated draft shortly, but it will not tackle this issue. I will try 
to address the issue in the subsequent revision.



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