> > by the way, i don't know of any way that gmail imap is not standard. > > perhaps this is in some esoteric corners of the protocol i'm not > > familar with. for the basic stuff, i haven't seen any issues at all. > > The two immediate issues I am aware of (via the UW-IMAP list) is that > MIME part sizes may be reported wrongly and that setting \Deleted on a > message will lead to it getting silently removed through an > auto-expunge that gmail does completely on its own (I believe this > latter behaviour can now be turned off through an experimental > setting).
calling that "non-standard" is mightly charitable. if that were my software, folk would be calling those bugs. - erik
