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+<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-4.1" href="#section-4.1">4.1</a>. <a href="./rfc2087">RFC 2087</a>, QUOTA</span>
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+<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-4.2" href="#section-4.2">4.2</a>. <a href="./rfc4314">RFC 4314</a>, Access Control List (ACL)</span>
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+ The ACL rights [<a href="./rfc4314" title=""IMAP4 Access Control List (ACL) Extension"">RFC4314</a>] required for MOVE and UID MOVE are the union
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+<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-4.4" href="#section-4.4">4.4</a>. <a href="./rfc5162">RFC 5162</a>, QRESYNC</span>
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+ The QRESYNC extension [<a href="./rfc5162" title=""IMAP4 Extensions for Quick Mailbox Resynchronization"">RFC5162</a>] states that the server SHOULD send
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+ If the server is capable of storing modification sequences for the
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+ selected mailbox, it MUST increment the per-mailbox mod-sequence if
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+ When one or more messages are moved to a target mailbox, if the
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+ the server MUST generate and assign new modification sequence numbers
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+<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-4.5" href="#section-4.5">4.5</a>. IMAP Events in Sieve</span>
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+ MOVE applies to IMAP events in Sieve [<a href="./rfc6785" title=""Support for Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) Events in Sieve"">RFC6785</a>] in the same way as
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+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-5" href="#section-5">5</a>. Formal Syntax</span>
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+
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+ The following syntax specification uses the Augmented Backus-Naur
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+ Form (ABNF) notation as specified in [<a href="./rfc5234" title=""Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF"">RFC5234</a>]. [<a href="./rfc3501" title=""INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1"">RFC3501</a>] defines
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+ capability =/ "MOVE"
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+ move = "MOVE" SP sequence-set SP mailbox
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+ uid = "UID" SP (copy / fetch / search / store / move)
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+
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+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-6" href="#section-6">6</a>. Security Considerations</span>
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+ MOVE does not introduce any new capabilities to IMAP, and this limits
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+ An additional area of concern is interaction with antispam,
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+ Different mailboxes may have different security policies that could
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+<hr class='noprint'/><!--NewPage--><pre class='newpage'><span id="page-7" ></span>
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+<span class="grey"><a href="./rfc6851">RFC 6851</a> IMAP - MOVE Extension January 2013</span>
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+ interact with MOVE in complex ways. Scanning with updated rules may
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+ MOVE does relieve a problem with the base specification, since client
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+ authors currently have to devise and implement complicated algorithms
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+ to handle partial failures of the STORE/COPY/EXPUNGE trio.
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+ Incomplete or improper implementation of these algorithms can lead to
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+ mail loss.
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+
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+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-7" href="#section-7">7</a>. IANA Considerations</span>
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+
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+ The IANA has added MOVE to the "IMAP 4 Capabilities" registry,
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+ <<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/imap4-capabilities">http://www.iana.org/assignments/imap4-capabilities</a>>.
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+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-8" href="#section-8">8</a>. Acknowledgments</span>
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+ This document is dedicated to the memory of Mark Crispin, the
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+ specification [<a href="./rfc3501" title=""INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1"">RFC3501</a>], and contributor to many other email
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+ specifications in the IETF.
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+ An extension like this has been proposed many times, by many people.
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+ This document is based on several of those proposals, most recently
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+ that by Witold Krecicki. Witold, Benoit Claise, Adrien W. de Croy,
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+ Stephen Farrell, Bron Gondwana, Dan Karp, Christian Ketterer, Murray
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+ Kucherawy, Jan Kundrat, Barry Leiba, Alexey Melnikov, Kathleen
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+ Moriarty, Zoltan Ordogh, Pete Resnick, Timo Sirainen, Michael
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+ Slusarz, and others provided valuable comments.
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+<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-9" href="#section-9">9</a>. References</span>
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+
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+<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-9.1" href="#section-9.1">9.1</a>. Normative References</span>
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+
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+ [<a id="ref-RFC2119">RFC2119</a>] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
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+ Requirement Levels", <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/bcp/bcp14">BCP 14</a>, <a href="./rfc2119">RFC 2119</a>, March 1997.
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+ [<a id="ref-RFC3501">RFC3501</a>] Crispin, M., "INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION
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+ 4rev1", <a href="./rfc3501">RFC 3501</a>, March 2003.
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+ [<a id="ref-RFC4314">RFC4314</a>] Melnikov, A., "IMAP4 Access Control List (ACL) Extension",
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+ <a href="./rfc4314">RFC 4314</a>, December 2005.
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+
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+ [<a id="ref-RFC4315">RFC4315</a>] Crispin, M., "Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) -
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+ UIDPLUS extension", <a href="./rfc4315">RFC 4315</a>, December 2005.
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+<span class="grey">Gulbrandsen & Freed Standards Track [Page 7]</span></pre>
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+<span class="grey"><a href="./rfc6851">RFC 6851</a> IMAP - MOVE Extension January 2013</span>
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+ [<a id="ref-RFC4551">RFC4551</a>] Melnikov, A. and S. Hole, "IMAP Extension for Conditional
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+ STORE Operation or Quick Flag Changes Resynchronization",
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+ <a href="./rfc4551">RFC 4551</a>, June 2006.
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+ [<a id="ref-RFC5162">RFC5162</a>] Melnikov, A., Cridland, D., and C. Wilson, "IMAP4
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+ Extensions for Quick Mailbox Resynchronization", <a href="./rfc5162">RFC 5162</a>,
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+ March 2008.
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+ [<a id="ref-RFC5234">RFC5234</a>] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
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+ Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, <a href="./rfc5234">RFC 5234</a>, January 2008.
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+<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-9.2" href="#section-9.2">9.2</a>. Informative References</span>
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+ [<a id="ref-RFC2087">RFC2087</a>] Myers, J., "IMAP4 QUOTA extension", <a href="./rfc2087">RFC 2087</a>,
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+ January 1997.
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+ [<a id="ref-RFC6785">RFC6785</a>] Leiba, B., "Support for Internet Message Access Protocol
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+ (IMAP) Events in Sieve", <a href="./rfc6785">RFC 6785</a>, November 2012.
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+Authors' Addresses
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+ Arnt Gulbrandsen
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+ Schweppermannstr. 8
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+ D-81671 Muenchen
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+ Germany
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+ Fax: +49 89 4502 9758
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+ Ned Freed (editor)
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+ Oracle
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+ 800 Royal Oaks
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+ Monrovia, CA 91016-6347
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+ USA
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+ EMail: ned+ietf@mrochek.com
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