Return order of Fetch items in 2.3.13

[Gabor Gombas]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:48:35PM -0600, Mark Stover wrote:

> The IMAP spec doesn't mention a return order for items fetched, so I'm not
> sure if the return is something we can count on.

>From RFC3501:

sequence-set    = (seq-number / seq-range) *("," sequence-set)
                    ; set of seq-number values, regardless of order.
                    ; Servers MAY coalesce overlaps and/or execute the
                    ; sequence in any order.
                    ; Example: a message sequence number set of
                    ; 2,4:7,9,12:* for a mailbox with 15 messages is
                    ; equivalent to 2,4,5,6,7,9,12,13,14,15
                    ; Example: a message sequence number set of *:4,5:7
                    ; for a mailbox with 10 messages is equivalent to
                    ; 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,5,6,7 and MAY be reordered and
                    ; overlap coalesced to be 4,5,6,7,8,9,10.

Gabor

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