On Thu 28, Jan'10 at 7:53 PM -0500, Timothy Collett wrote:
Yes, please. I may still disagree with John about the design/development
philosophy here, but he's definitely gotten me interested in what is
possible with IMAP. I always just thought it was basically "you get to
sync your email properly between lots of different clients," but from what
he's saying it sounds like there's more to it than that...
As John has pointed out, different servers have different capabilities. For
now lets ignore Gmail and its folders/labels thing. Some servers provide
threading commands, searching, etc. So you can ask for a threaded view of
your mailbox and the server gives it to you. Or ask the server to search
for a term - saves you from downloading all the messages (or parts of them)
to search for something.
Sieve, while not directly part of IMAP, comes with some IMAP servers (I
think) and allows for server side filtering.
I don't know all the details...
Anyway, here's a link with some IMAP extensions, the RFC's that define them,
and what servers they support:
<http://www.imapwiki.org/Extensions>
Here's another interesting chart:
<http://www.melnikov.ca/mel/devel/ServerReference.html>
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