Re: Sqwebmail and IMAP

[Sam]

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:

> IMAP permits the name Mailbox/2.  Feel free to argue that that's
> stupid.  It's just a drop in the bucket of stupidity which is IMAP.
> Did I say stupidity?  I mean another word beginning with s.

IMAP may permit this name, in theory, but IMAP servers are free to reject
it.

I do believe that IMAP is an extremely moronic protocol, but for other
reasons, and this ain't it.  How RFC 2060 reached the Standard status is a
complete mystery to me.