layers of disappointment
the inventor of imap is unimpressed with gmail’s support, but consider me way less impressed with the imap protocol itself. some of the ideas are good, but the protocol is just terrible, and the specification is one of the worst things about it (but i have been saying that for years). i am amazed that an http-based mail protocol hasn’t replaced it.
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Yeah - in a way it's disappointing that Google didn't come up with an alternate protocol to access their mail store over HTTP instead or in addition to. They have enough users that client writers would figure out to support it and other mail services would follow ...