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Subject: Re: [9fans] gmail 0: messages
Date: Wed,  7 Dec 2005 23:36:36 -0800
From: geoff@collyer.net
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IMAP is yet another bad remote filesystem protocol, this one with
special hacks added to permit fast remote searching of mail.  It's
complex enough that implementations are pretty much forced to be big
(e.g., Plan 9's imap4d is ~8,400 lines of C vs. 804 lines for
upas/pop3) and it requires support of at least one botched character
encoding, UTF-7.  What's not to like?