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On Monday, December 09, 2002, Markus Gloede wrote...

>> I don't know why IMAP support depends so much on the client used,
>> but according to their mailing, there is no reason to assume that
>> this first version should work with TB at all.

> I recall having read somewhere that MS products speak a different
> dialect of IMAPrev4. I set up an IMAP server once where one setting
> was along the lines of "support broken OE IMAP -yes".

  Again, evidence that the software giant makes everybody have to flex
  for their incompliant code with RFCs.

>> Thus, don't worry. Be patient until they say that IMAP support
>> should work with all mail clients. If it still won't work with TB,
>> contact GMX first.

  Wait until TB!2 comes out first... The 1.6 series of TB has bad IMAP
  support ;)

> Again, unless the pressure rises I don't think GMX will put much
> effort into supporting other IMAP 'dialects'. Sadly we are in no
> position to claim that the Bat speaks proper IMAP. We simply do not
> know if the limited IMAP support that the Bat currently has is
> 'proper' or 'improper'. Yet I know for sure that it at least is able
> to work with fastmail and other mail providers.

  There really shouldn't be variable 'dialects'... just one... and
  that is RFC compliant, responding, and reading only what is allowed.

> Anybody here that knows about the differences in IMAP support?

  Depends what you mean... or in regards to what. I'm a developer on a
  popular web based IMAP4rev1 client ;)

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Jonathan Angliss
([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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