[Imap-protocol] re: GMail

[Sarah Wilkin]

> IMHO, most of the people who've done IMAP over the years would  

> rather curtail further IMAP extensions.  IMAP has too many  

> extensions, and although every one has a passionate set of defenders  

> the fact is that most clients and servers implement few (if any) of  

> these.  Then there are the servers which misimplement extensions  

> (such as Courier doing so for SORT and THREAD).

>

> In case someone would like to put together such a list, here is a  

> strawman (to throw to the wolves!) of how I would rate the currently  

> published set of extensions.


This is great, thanks. Is there any timeline proposed for IMAP5, or  
something earlier for internationalization/UTF-8?

It would be great to have a base specification that covered many of  
the more popular extensions (especially IDLE, UIDPLUS, LITERAL+,  
UNSELECT), but I'm sure every client implementor has a different  
shortlist.

--Sarah