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

Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> Mon, 20 February 2012 14:44 UTC

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From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
To: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>, Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com>, Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>, "Discussion on drastically slimming-down IMAP." <imap5@ietf.org>, Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
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On Mon Feb 20 14:35:35 2012, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> It probably means storing annotations - or at least providing a way
> to access this envelope data that smells remarkably like  
> annotations.

No.

Store it as a properly modelled transport envelope - no need to turn  
it into magic soup - that's never worked.

Dave.
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