[Imap-protocol] IMAP features: which clients use them?

[Dave Cridland]

On Mon Mar 26 17:43:34 2007, Mark Crispin wrote:
> The sooner SSL-only clients are abolished, the happier I would be.

Absolutely, but while it's previously been largely [perceived as] a 
matter of taste, there's a fairly nasty issue lurking when the 
IMAP/URLAUTH and ESMTP/BURL extensions are considered. (There's also 
similar-ish issues with MAILBOX-REFERRALS, but these are rarely 
implemented by clients - to the extent that Lemonade's "Forward 
Without Up^WDownload" Trio are probably more widely implemented now).

Polymer is no longer the only client to use the Lemonade Trio, and 
I'd not be too surprised to see a reasonable substantial number of 
clients implement it within a few months, now. Even if I'm wrong, and 
it remains a fairly specialized action, there's a cost - measured in 
real-world currency for many people - attached to this issue, and 
it's a pretty bad choice to alienate yourself from the mobile email 
market right now.

Dave.
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