Mark Crispin wrote : > Many client implementors seem to approach IMAP as something to be fought > and subdued. IMAP has many powerful capabilities which a client can > exploit, but (for whatever reason) these capabilities are seen as > surplusage, irritants, or even something to overcome. The delete-expunge > model and the unsolicited data model are prime examples of this.
could you be more explicit about the problem with delete-expunge model and unsolicited data model ? > This perhaps should be a lesson for future protocol architects; don't make > the server do things that client implementors may see as being within > their domain of control. The problem is that the client has in all case to implement MIME parser (when they want to do POP3, mbox or such other things), flags are some other things around and maybe that's why implementors of client don't bother about implementing these IMAP parts of the protocol. -- DINH V. Hoa, "le vin c'est pas de l'alcool" -- MAB
