MBOX-Line: From brong at fastmail.fm  Sun Oct 23 00:49:12 2011
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:46 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Apple's iCloud server non-compliant!
In-Reply-To: <4EA35064.5552.33AE28E3@David.Harris.pmail.gen.nz>
References: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1110221212460.29979@hsinghsing.panda.com>
	<4EA35064.5552.33AE28E3@David.Harris.pmail.gen.nz>
Message-ID: <20111023074912.GA13089@brong.net>

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:23:16PM +1300, David Harris wrote:
> On 22 Oct 2011 at 12:20, Mark Crispin wrote:
> 
> > There is yet another broken IMAP server inflicted upon the world.  The
> > iCloud/.me IMAP server (a.k.a. iSCREAM, st11p00mmm-iscream--5.me.com)
> > advertises AUTH=PLAIN but doesn't accept it:
> >  	2 authenticate plain
> >  	2 BAD parse error
> > 
> > Apparently, Apple thinks think that by advertising SASL-IR, a client is
> > compelled to implement it.
> 
> Apple has always seemed to believe that they are in the business of 
> making standards, not following them. They're the new IBM in that 
> regard.
> 
> As someone who's had to deal with the output from infinitely-accursed 
> AppleMail in its various incarnations over the years, nothing Apple do 
> could surprise me any more.

INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Inbox.Apple Mail To Do and friends?  It made
me put a lot of work into accurate handling of our "maximum mailbox size"
rules across renames and deletes.

Bron.

