> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > > Investigate installing courier-imap(+ssl+pop3) as a unified answer... :-) > > > > IIRC, Crispen says that Courier violates the IMAP standard. Is that still > > true? > > No client I've tested it with has gotten upset, so if it still does, the > issue is minor.
>From my visits to comp.mail.imap I remember this ongoing "standard violation" discussion stems from the fact that there are essentially two IMAP server/client implementation schools who interpret a number of (acknowledged) RFC text incoherencies in different ways, producing one server/clients set that works fine and another one which does equally fine, but you're more or less guaranteed to run into trouble when you mix them and use any of the disputed features. I recall an emotional (people who have read Usenet articles written by M. Crispin will interpret this correctly] discussion whether the range "[10 .. 6]" contained 0 or 5 items. Eric.
