Sorry for the confusion. This problem is only going to affect those whose IMAP servers don't support the MOVE extension, which is probably why it was overlooked. I tested with courier, dovecot, RFC sample sessions and gmail IMAP transcripts, FWIW. sean [0] tagged in COPY response https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2359#section-4.3 untagged in MOVE response https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6851#section-4.3