Once clients enable this extension, commands can no longer refer to "message
sequence numbers" (MSNs), but can only refer to messages with UIDs. This means
both sides no longer have to carefully keep their sequence numbers in sync
(error-prone), and don't have to keep track of a mapping of sequence numbers to
UIDs (saves resources).
With UIDONLY enabled, all FETCH responses are replaced with UIDFETCH response.
Keeping the message files around, and the message details in the database, is
useful for IMAP sessions that haven't seen/processed the removal of a message
yet and try to fetch it. Before, we would return errors. Similarly, a session
that has a mailbox selected that is removed can (at least in theory) still read
messages.
The mechanics to do this need keeping removed mailboxes around too. JMAP needs
that anyway, so we now keep modseq/createseq/expunged history for mailboxes
too. And while we're at it, for annotations as well.
For future JMAP support, we now also keep the mailbox parent id around for a
mailbox, with an upgrade step to set the field for existing mailboxes and
fixing up potential missing parents (which could possibly have happened in an
obscure corner case that I doubt anyone ran into).
we already supported special-use flags. settable through the webmail interface,
and new accounts already got standard mailboxes with special-use flags
predefined. but now the IMAP "CREATE" command implements creating mailboxes
with special-use flags.
an é (e with accent) can also be written as e+\u0301. the first form is NFC,
the second NFD. when logging in, we transform usernames (email addresses) to
NFC. so both forms will be accepted. if a client is using NFD, they can log
in too.
for passwords, we apply the PRECIS "opaquestring", which (despite the name)
transforms the value too: unicode spaces are replaced with ascii spaces. the
string is also normalized to NFC. PRECIS may reject confusing passwords when
you set a password.
the imapserver started with imap4rev2-only and utf8=only. to prevent potential
issues with imaputf7, which makes "&" special, we refused any mailbox with an
"&" in the name. we already tried decoding utf7, falling back to using a
mailbox name verbatim. that behaviour wasn't great. we now treat the enabled
extensions IMAP4rev2 and/or UTF8=ACCEPT as indication whether mailbox names are
in imaputf7. if they are, the encoding must be correct.
we now also send mailbox names in imaputf7 when imap4rev2/utf8=accept isn't
enabled.
and we now allow "*" and "%" (wildcard characters for matching) in mailbox
names. not ideal for IMAP LIST with patterns, but not enough reason to refuse
them in mailbox names. people that migrate may run into this, possibly as
blocker.
we also allow "#" in mailbox names, but not as first character, to prevent
potential clashes with IMAP namespaces in the future.
based on report from Damian Poddebniak using
https://github.com/duesee/imap-flow and issue #110, thanks for reporting!
OLDNAME is included in IMAP4rev2, but not in IMAP4rev1. it is also included in
the NOTIFY extension, but we don't implement that yet.
found by Damian Poddebniak with https://github.com/duesee/imap-flow, thanks!
