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MBOX-Line: From dave at cridland.net Sat Oct 27 15:21:48 2007
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:40 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] re: GMail
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In-Reply-To: <alpine.WNT.0.9999.0710270924180.4788@Shimo-Tomobiki.Panda.COM>
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References: <alpine.WNT.0.9999.0710241938220.520@Shimo-Tomobiki.Panda.COM>
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<fc2c80ae0710270911o23f0b366g942b2956ac3fa@mail.gmail.com>
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<alpine.WNT.0.9999.0710270924180.4788@Shimo-Tomobiki.Panda.COM>
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Message-ID: <5202.1193523708.069559@peirce.dave.cridland.net>
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On Sat Oct 27 17:36:06 2007, Mark Crispin wrote:
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> I exchanged a handful of messages with Google about their use of
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> mailboxes (instead of keywords) to represent GMail labels and the
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> problems that occur as a result of this. They have two problems;
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> first that labels can be UTF-8 and second that they worry about
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> limited client support.
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>
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> IMHO, we should give a hum of concensus for a commuity statement
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> that keywords can be in modified UTF-7. I don't see any syntax
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> reason why this can not be done, although doubtless we'd all have
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> to update our clients to handle MUTF7 in keywords. That should not
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> be a big deal for most of us.
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>
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> MUTF7 sucks. We all know that. We should move forward on IMAP
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> UTF-8 ASAP. I think that we should have a sweet, short, RFC in
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> which a server advertises a UTF8 capability which the client has to
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> switch on. When on, the server accepts and outputs UTF-8 instead
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> of MUTF7. It is up to server how the strings are stored
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> internally, but if it stored in UTF-8 then it must convert to/from
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> MUTF7 when not in UTF-8 mode.
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+1 - I was just having this conversation with - apparently - the same
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person you were.
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But I'd like to turn off all the legacy encoding at the same time.
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Mailboxes, keywords, headers, bodies - the lot.
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Dave.
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--
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Dave Cridland - mailto:dave@cridland.net - xmpp:dwd@jabber.org
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- http://dave.cridland.net/
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