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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:04:10 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Gmail and upas
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> > 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