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 More options Jan 27 2005, 7:14 am
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From: NM Public <ago...@nm.deflexion.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:14:58 +0000
Local: Thurs, Jan 27 2005 7:14 am
Subject: Re: IMAP for Gmail
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On 27 Jan 2005 Igal.Hun...@gmail.com (Igal.Hun...@gmail.com) wrote:

> So I can find a reason for Gmail implementing IMAP, can you find
> a reason for them net too? And make it reasonable too, and not some
> overprotective stuff you wrote before.

Maybe the reason that Gmail hasn't implemented IMAP is because
they haven't yet figured out a good way to reflect their mail
store onto an IMAP mail store. One possibility is to have all the
messages be in one IMAP box and each label be an IMAP keyword.
But AFAIK there are not many IMAP clients that this would work
with. The most popular IMAP client is Moz Suite/Thunderbird and
it supports 5 IMAP keywords and each message can have at most 1
keyword. One of the most respected IMAP clients is Mulberry and
it supports 8 IMAP keywords. Another IMAP client (and the one I
use as my primary IMAP client) is Pine. It supports an unlimited
number of IMAP keywords and each message can have multiple
keywords. I've been trying to emulate Gmail with Pine and IMAP
keywords and it is not easy.

My question to you Igal.Hunter is: How should Gmail map their
mail store onto an IMAP mail store so that users can keep their
labels in sync?

It's a hard problem, but it's not insurmountable and I'm hoping
that Gmail's solution will help to drive the evolution of IMAP
clients by using a lot of currently underused IMAP features,
including IMAP keywords and IMAP annotations.

Here's a prediction: Since there aren't any IMAP clients that
would really work with Gmail right now, I bet that Gmail is
creating their own desktop IMAP client and that they are going to
release Gmail server-side IMAP simultaneously with the Gmail IMAP
client. (You heard it here first :-))

Nancy

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IMAP Service Providers: <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/imap/isps/>
All About Pine: <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/>


 
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