MBOX-Line: From janssen at parc.com  Tue Mar 20 12:48:46 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:38 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP features:  which clients use them?
Message-ID: <07Mar20.114847pst."57996"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>

I'm intrigued by the charts of email client capabilities on Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients).  You'll
notice that almost all the clients claim to support IMAP4 (even the
ones which don't support STARTTLS, like Outlook :-).

There's a column in the Wikipedia chart labelled "Database, folders,
and customization" which purports to show which clients use IMAP
search.  I'm interested in knowing more about a fairly narrow topic:
which clients use IMAP search, and how they use it.  Is there such a
chart?  Or listing?  I'd be happy to put one together if folks want to
mail me contributions.

In fact, I'd like to make a version of this chart which calls out more
specifically IMAP features and usage, so that folks who want to use
IMAP mail services can have a better idea of which clients will be
most useful to them.  What should those features be?

Bill

