On 1/25/10 5:34 PM, "Caio Chassot" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think John's point, which might be lost on some people here, is that IMAP >> is a mess. There's no perfect implementation. Every server has different >> extensions, and none implement them all. And Gmail is a big fat F*** YOU in >> the face of everyone else. > > Yes, indeed. And my point is, because of that, fuck it, we can't cater to each > server's idiosyncrasies. A lot of hate will now be directed at me, but I lean > more towards IMAP as a dumb store than a super powerful email platform. It'll > be a strict give me some mail, store some mail relationship. If that's what you think IMAP is, I submit you have no real idea about the protocol. If that's what you want, this is not an IMAP client. > > We're not making a silly terminal app to run on your linux netbook. It's a Mac > desktop app, and we have a lot of computing power to spare. We do things on > the client, because the client affords *every* feature we want to implement. > That some of them map to IMAP server features is at best incidental. (And > depends on server vendor, version, particular setup options, etc. Lost > battle.) You're making an IMAP application and ignoring the protocol completely. That's what Google does. Oh look, we have Gmail. -- John C. Welch Writer/Analyst Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
