On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 01:33:58 +0200, Jesus Cea <j...@jcea.es> wrote: > On 10/10/14 01:08, Victor Stinner wrote: > > When you say "IMAP4", do you mean any IMAP4 server? Do you have a list > > of server vendors known to use the encoding mUTF-7? > > All of them. IMAP4 protocol **REQUIRES** mUTF-7.
[...] > I am volunteering and can even do the mercurial PUSH myself :-p. That is > an advantage over some of those new encoding requests :-pp. > > But then yes, I realize that this is a specialized tool (even if IMAP4 > is probably the most popular mail access protocol in the world), we can > accommodate every use-case and there are tons of mUTF-7 libraries out > there already. > > So, I am asking :). I see you are already nosy on issue 5305. I don't think there is any question that this is a useful and desired feature for python's imaplib. If it makes sense to implement it as a codec, there is no reason *not* to do that. --David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
