No, it's *NOT* a walled garden at all. It is the opposite. Google was the first company that let you get at your web-based email via POP3/ IMAP. This was absolutely unique and that combined with the 1GB meant that almost everyone believed it was in fact an April Fools joke (GMail was announced on april 1st). Separate from google's moral high ground or lack thereof as a company, calling GMail a walled garden is insulting. It tore down the walls of web-based email. It was and is a *fantastic* feather in the cap of the open internet.
As far as IMAP servers go, gmail isn't the best out there, but being slightly non-confirming to spec does not a walled garden make. The way gmail handles its IMAP is public information and nobody is going to get sued or impeded in trying to release a tool that reads into / out of this slightly non-conforming IMAP clone. Let's not lose sight of what 'walled garden' means in this discussion. On Mar 16, 12:16 am, Peter Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > GMail often doesn't show you your own mail if you post through IMAP. > Most of the time, actually -- but not always. > > GMail is another walled garden -- it works well as long as you use the > GMail interface, but the IMAP interface behaves weird in some regards > and the fact that renaming an email subject renames a whole thread for > GMail UI users is ridiculous. The walls are pretty low, though :-) > > Peter > > On 16/03/10 03:45, Karsten Silz wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I thought I had posted this interesting reading about a sorry > > development yesterday, but I must have been mistaken. > > >http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/technology/14brawl.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
