Re: Mulberry gone, now what?

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, usenet@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
... and suffers from the same problem as virtually every other IMAP
client out there - it works best with a limited range of IMAP servers.

"Works best with a limited range of IMAP servers", or "works best with standards-compliant IMAP servers"?

Personally I think this is the fundamental flaw in IMAP, it's not
tightly enough specified so IMAP servers vary quite a lot with the
result that it's well nigh impossible to write an IMAP client that
works well with them all.

Can you point to anything in the IMAP specification that illustrates this point?

I ask this, because the interoperability problems that I have seen have always been due to an implementation that failed to comply with an explicitly stated requirement in the IMAP specification. One of the most common blunders is to implement one's own idea of syntax rather than the syntax described in the Formal Syntax.

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