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MBOX-Line: From mrc+imap at panda.com Wed May 18 16:15:19 2011
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: Mark Crispin <mrc+imap@panda.com>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:46 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] Thoughts on keyword improvements/enhancements
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In-Reply-To: <20110518210716.GA12636@brong.net>
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References: <20110518011645.Horde.6sTkboF5lbhN03Jd3XNndCA@bigworm.curecanti.org>
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<BANLkTikVbKdXg01nnajJ-=XLNfTpjjjG0Q@mail.gmail.com>
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<alpine.OSX.2.00.1105181108180.24932@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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<20110518210716.GA12636@brong.net>
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Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1105181519330.24932@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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On Wed, 18 May 2011, Bron Gondwana wrote:
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> What annoys me the most is no CONDSTORE/QRESYNC support, so you
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> can't create an efficient gmail client - you need to sync all the
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> flags, every time. Gmail is big enough that I'm fairly willing to
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> special case it in exchange for big performance wins, but there's
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> just no way to be sure you have all the changes.
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This serves to illustrate the overall problem with synchronization, and
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specifically with synchronizing email.
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Email synchronization is a fool's errand; but there seem to be an abundant
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supply of fools that undertake it.
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Thus we have miserable mobile device email clients such as Mail.app on the
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iToy, BlackBerry, and the default Mail app on Android. At least Android
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has k9mail which - just barely - steps over the line into "usability".
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A special place in hell exists for the authors of synchronizing email
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clients that refuse to display email unless there's a session open to the
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server...
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All in the name of the holy religion of "email users won't tolerate
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waiting for the network/not being able to access mail without network
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access." Hello kids, ever hear of webmail?
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There is another way of doing client/server email. Too bad that very few
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understand it; many more that have heard of it, but do not understand it.
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Sadly, as the only money to be made in email today is in making email NOT
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work, not in making it work, it's not likely that we'll see much change in
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the status quo.
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-- Mark --
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http://panda.com/mrc
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Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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