MBOX-Line: From dave at cridland.net  Sat Oct 27 15:21:48 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:40 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] re: GMail
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On Sat Oct 27 17:36:06 2007, Mark Crispin wrote:
> I exchanged a handful of messages with Google about their use of  
> mailboxes (instead of keywords) to represent GMail labels and the  
> problems that occur as a result of this.  They have two problems;  
> first that labels can be UTF-8 and second that they worry about  
> limited client support.
> 
> IMHO, we should give a hum of concensus for a commuity statement  
> that keywords can be in modified UTF-7.  I don't see any syntax  
> reason why this can not be done, although doubtless we'd all have  
> to update our clients to handle MUTF7 in keywords.  That should not  
> be a big deal for most of us.
> 
> MUTF7 sucks.  We all know that.  We should move forward on IMAP  
> UTF-8 ASAP.  I think that we should have a sweet, short, RFC in  
> which a server advertises a UTF8 capability which the client has to  
> switch on.  When on, the server accepts and outputs UTF-8 instead  
> of MUTF7.  It is up to server how the strings are stored  
> internally, but if it stored in UTF-8 then it must convert to/from  
> MUTF7 when not in UTF-8 mode.

+1 - I was just having this conversation with - apparently - the same  
person you were.

But I'd like to turn off all the legacy encoding at the same time.  
Mailboxes, keywords, headers, bodies - the lot.

Dave.
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