I can venture a guess.
IMAP is an industry standard. Documented, validate-able (i.e. is this IMAP
command correct or malformed, is the response correct).
It's a "common language" that lets mail services and mail apps to
interoperate:
Thunderbird, K9 Mail, Windows Mail, Samsung Email, etc. <->
Just two (very technical) cents FWIW:
Given claims that that Yahoo "never" supported IMAP IDLE extension...
... we can look at how things are *right now*.
This a session transcript, I'm using a command line tool to connect
directly - i.e. not using any email app. I'm using an @aol.com account.
Yes, AquaMail is able to handle these (winmail.dat files) in a special way.
The underlying technical differences (vs. regular MIME attachments) are
completely hidden from the users...
...who expect to just see their attachments and not have to learn the
whys and the hows, and so that's what
AquaMail developer here (um, I sometimes read this group, when some large mail
service breaks something, to see if other apps are also affected...)
My app is not based on k9, stock Android email, or any other email app.
Haven't seen the latest k9, but as far as the UI goes:
- I released a
