The extension that this person is talking about is exactly that, an extension. It simply adds the ability for a mail client to retrieve the label attribute for any given message. It does *not* break the standard IMAP functionality, nor does it 'break the Internet'.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Zack (Doc) <z...@tnan.net> wrote: > Odd, I have not had any problem with Thunderbird IMAP on Gmail. Do you have > proof that it's not supporting it correctly? I don't use Outlook for my > GMail, but as many problems as I have with Outlook supporting Exchange, to > Microsoft's own servers, I have little doubt the fault lies more with > Outlook than it does Google. > > > On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:32 PM, betatrash <betatr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> outlook does not currently work with gmail's IMAP implementation due to >> X-GM-LABELS extension. >> >> just a heads up, in case you run into this problem. >> >> neither does any other IMAP client, even though gmail purports to support >> the IMAP implementation, it uses a custom one, incompatible with all >> clients. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Marko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.