From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82671 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: IMAP protocol help Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 08:15:19 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <874njcdi54.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356268547 20442 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2012 13:15:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:15:47 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30937@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Dec 23 14:16:03 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TmlPO-0006kq-ME for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:16:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1TmlP4-00020X-Vp; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 07:15:43 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1TmlP3-00020F-J2 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 07:15:41 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TmlP2-0008W9-HF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 07:15:41 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TmlP1-0002fQ-4G for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:15:39 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TmlPB-0006Wj-1Z for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:15:49 +0100 Original-Received: from c-65-96-148-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([65.96.148.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:15:49 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-65-96-148-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:15:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-65-96-148-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gm4ykkOcZRISm1Ynin2OxGQZYfE= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82671 Archived-At: There's surprisingly few Google-able explanations of IMAP, because the search terms are very common. I want a walkthrough that shows how the protocol works with examples, for all the common functionality up to newer stuff like NOTIFY and QRESYNC. The RFCs are spectacularly useless. I don't know why, but I have read them several times and they answer "is this formatted properly?" but not "how does an IMAP conversation look?". Perhaps it's just me... This is for gnus-sync and so I can be more helpful understanding and debugging IMAP in general. I would greatly appreciate any pointers. Thanks Ted