[Haskell-cafe] Brainstorming on how to parse IMAP

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Aug 4, at 6:10, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

>> A283 SEARCH {4} {21}
>> TEXTstring not in mailbox
>
> Assuming the first line can be read strictly, and the remainder should
> be lazy, the parser might look something like this:

FWIW, the actual data looks more like

   A283 SEARCH {4}
   TEXT
    {21}
   string not in mailbox

(the literal declaration is followed immediately by CRLF, the literal,  
CRLF, then the command line context resumes)

also, literals require multiple exchanges with the server unless the  
LITERAL+ extension is present and being used ({4+} instead of {4}).

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