MBOX-Line: From bill.shannon at sun.com  Tue Sep 12 13:46:06 2006
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@sun.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:37 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] reporting/detecting expunged messages
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Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>> What a shame there isn't a test suite to test conformance with the
>> IMAP spec...
> 
> 
> Conformance isn't the problem.  Some of the worst behaviour imaginable 
> is exhibited by fully compliant clients and servers.

It's the difference between "good" and "correct".  I'd start with
"correct" and work up to "good".

