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Re: [lemonade] Lack of text after resp-text-code

To: Dave Cridland <dave at cridland.net>
Subject: Re: [lemonade] Lack of text after resp-text-code
From: Dan Karp <dkarp at zimbra.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 07:43:07 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Enhancements to Internet email to support diverse service enivronments <lemonade at ietf.org>, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
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> > resp-text       = ["[" resp-text-code "]" SP] text
> > text            = 1*TEXT-CHAR
> 
> > So there should always be some text if resp-text-code is used.
> 
> Hmmm. I'd say that RFC 3501 was broken, then.
> There's no reason to require text, there, after all, and (as far as I 
> can tell) all implementations deal with missing text.

The RFC requires it, and there are indeed some clients that cannot
retrieve mail from noncompliant servers.  PGP Desktop 9.7.0 is one.

(Why do I know this?  Somebody opened this bug against us back in
early 2008: http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23485)

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