[Imap-protocol] re: GMail

[Tim Showalter]

Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Client-side capabilities come to my mind. Has something like this been

> discussed already?

> 

> 1 ENABLE UTF-8 UNSOLICITED-RESPONSES-WITHOUT-IDLE ETC


IMAP lore says this is what killed IMAP 3.

I'm not opposed to client-side capabilities, as I think we need a way to 
get rid of some of the cruft of the protocol eventually.  But I do think 
we ought to be able to specify a strict, increasing order for such 
extensions.

Tim