MBOX-Line: From joel at panacea.null.org  Tue Oct 30 22:11:27 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Joel Reicher <joel@panacea.null.org>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:40 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] re: GMail
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> IMHO, subscriptions are hopelessly broken and are not reliably 
> interoperable.  This qualifies subscriptions as cruft that should be 
> deleted from IMAP.  I don't like saying this, but at some point it is wise 
> to cut losses.  The benefit of having ones .newsrc exported via IMAP pales 
> compared to the costs of all these clients that do LIST "" * followed by 
> thousands of SUBSCRIBE commands.
> 
> If it is desirable to have some way of recording a subset of public 
> mailboxes for use by multiple clients, it needs to be done by some other 
> mechanism.

Thinking about this more, I'm tending toward the idea that subscriptions
are a type of client configuration data. Doing them with ACAP might be
the way to go.

Cheers,

	- Joel

