[Imap-protocol] re: GMail

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 17:10 -0700, Mark Crispin wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Dave Cridland wrote:

> > But I'd like to turn off all the legacy encoding at the same time. Mailboxes, 

> > keywords, headers, bodies - the lot.

> 

> You mean that you want the server to translate charsets to UTF-8?  I would 

> support doing that with an alternative form of FETCH, e.g., UTF8.FETCH. 

> But then there would have to be an error on a charset conversion failure, 

> and it begs the question as to why the CONVERT extension in Lemonade 

> doesn't do that.


Converting message bodies would break cryptographic signatures.
Converting headers automatically might also do bad things. I guess
ENVELOPE, BODY and BODYSTRUCTURE could be returned converted, but I
don't know if that helps much.

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