MBOX-Line: From MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU  Wed Oct 24 19:54:00 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:40 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] re: GMail
Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.0.9999.0710241938220.520@Shimo-Tomobiki.Panda.COM>

If I had to rate Gmail's IMAP server by the standards of "ready for prime 
time" my rating would be quite damning; it is non-compliant with the IMAP 
specification and has demonstrable bugs in operation.

Rather than do so, I prefer to consider Gmail's IMAP server to be a first 
development test, and NOT something that is presented as being "ready for 
prime time".

I hope that Google feels the same way, and that Google will soon present 
a server that is "ready for prime time".

-- Mark --

http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.

