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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Tim Showalter <tjs@psaux.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:40 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] re: GMail
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Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
>> 1) An "ENABLE UTF-8" command that throws a big switch.  Rather unIMAPish.
> 
> 
> IFF a big switch is the right way to solve it, I like this, but... hm... 
> how shall I say this? IMO, the value of ENABLE is O(1/n), where n is the 
> number of times it is used, so I'd prefer to keep n small.

Agreed.

On the off chance this is actually what's approved, "ENABLE" should be a 
slider.  '0' (default) is IMAP4, '1' should be IMAP4+UTF8, '2' should be 
the next feature we can't live without.

We should allow servers that require clients to support UTF8, although I 
would expect this rollout to take quite a lot of time.

I'm not endorsing this idea, but I do think there is an obvious way to 
mitigate the exponential number of feature toggles.

Tim

