@misc{rfc5464, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 5464, howpublished = {RFC 5464}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC5464}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5464}, author = {Cyrus Daboo}, title = {{The IMAP METADATA Extension}}, pagetotal = 20, year = 2009, month = feb, abstract = {The METADATA extension to the Internet Message Access Protocol permits clients and servers to maintain "annotations" or "metadata" on IMAP servers. It is possible to have annotations on a per-mailbox basis or on the server as a whole. For example, this would allow comments about the purpose of a particular mailbox to be "attached" to that mailbox, or a "message of the day" containing server status information to be made available to anyone logging in to the server. {[}STANDARDS-TRACK{]}}, }