Name: draft-melnikov-imap-search-res-00
Title: IMAP extension for referencing the last SEARCH result
State: Active
Authors: Alexey Melnikov
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-10-18
Many IMAP clients use the result of a SEARCH command as the input to
perform another operation, for example fetching the found messages,
deleting them or copying them to another mailbox. This can be achieved
using standard IMAP operations described in RFC 2501, however this would be
suboptimal: the server will send the list of found messages to the client,
after that the client will have to parse the list, reformat it and send it
back to the server. The client can't pipeline the SEARCH command with the
subsequent command. This document proposes an IMAP extension that allows a
client to tell a server to use the result of the latest SEARCH (or UID
SEARCH) command as an input to any subsequent command.
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