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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Philip Guenther <guenther+imap@sendmail.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:40 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Re: [Alpine-alpha] Gmail + Alpine + IMAP keywords
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Mark Crispin wrote:
...
> Yeah, I think that Gmail got themselves into a worse swamp by implementing 
> labels as mailboxes than if they had followed the straight and narrow and 
> used keywords.  I'm still trying to convince them to change their minds; and 
> to make this viable, IMHO, the IMAP protocol community should immediately 
> agree that keywords can use Modified-UTF7 and push for UTF-8 in keywords and 
> flags.

The characters in atom-specials can't be included directly in flag names 
and they can't be encoded in modified-UTF-7, so simply saying "flag names 
should be interpreted as being in modified-UTF-7" would not be sufficient 
to let gmail represent all possible label names.

("So I created a label of '\* \Drafts' and my IMAP client exploded...")


Philip Guenther

