MBOX-Line: From aspineux at gmail.com  Mon Mar 26 07:22:02 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Alain Spineux <aspineux@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:38 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] literal usage
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On 3/20/07, Mark Crispin <mrc@cac.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Alain Spineux wrote:
>
> An implementation is likely to do so when it is uncomfortable with the
> contents; for example, \ was an ordinary character quoted strings in IMAP2
> and thus implementations that seek to be IMAP2 compatible will avoid using
> quoted strings that have \ quoting.  Another reason for discomfort is if
> the string is long; parsing for the trailing quote is more work than
> handling the literal.

This is a usefull answere :-)

>
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