MBOX-Line: From swilkin at apple.com  Mon Oct 29 16:46:07 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Sarah Wilkin <swilkin@apple.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:40 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] re: GMail
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> IMHO, most of the people who've done IMAP over the years would  
> rather curtail further IMAP extensions.  IMAP has too many  
> extensions, and although every one has a passionate set of defenders  
> the fact is that most clients and servers implement few (if any) of  
> these.  Then there are the servers which misimplement extensions  
> (such as Courier doing so for SORT and THREAD).
>
> In case someone would like to put together such a list, here is a  
> strawman (to throw to the wolves!) of how I would rate the currently  
> published set of extensions.

This is great, thanks. Is there any timeline proposed for IMAP5, or  
something earlier for internationalization/UTF-8?

It would be great to have a base specification that covered many of  
the more popular extensions (especially IDLE, UIDPLUS, LITERAL+,  
UNSELECT), but I'm sure every client implementor has a different  
shortlist.

--Sarah

