On 2015-04-02 12:59, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Anders Le Chevalier writes:
> 
>> 
>>> What I just said. This is IMAP's ugly side. There's only one,
>>> very specific way, to implement IMAP on the client that has
>>> any reasonable chance of working with every IMAP server in
>>> existence. And it's not very obvious what it should be, not
>>> obvious at all. You can't rely on UIDNEXT. You can't rely on
>>> half the stuff in RFC 3501, because you don't have a lot of
>>> guarantees to go on.
>>> 
>> 
>> What is your policy regarding Courier's implementation of IMAP? 
>> Support only bare minimum required features, or add new RFCs,
>> even though they are optional?
> 
> There are no formal policies written in stone. What gets done is a 
> combination of what I want to get done, for whatever reason,
> together with anything reasonable that someone else wants to get
> done, and writes a reasonable patch for it.
> 

Is there a reason in avoiding supporting optional features from new
RFCs? I.E. supporting users who might want or need these features?

~A



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