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Re: [imap5] Feature set? - was Re: Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Mon, 20 February 2012 14:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [imap5] Feature set? - was Re: Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP
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Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> The downside of out-of-band metadata is that everything needs to
> support it.  Otherwise you can't even see it.  If it's in-band in
> the message, you can transfer it via intermediate stages that don't
> understand it - so you can download it via a dumb client, then
> operate on the local copy.

I think this is very important.

Tony.
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