Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP Client (2006)

Re:Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP Client (2006) by mjevans on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:01AM (#21375075)

I don't know how many of these Outlook (any version ever that I've touched) violates, but I do know that it AT LEAST violates #9 by default.

It irks me to no end, and un-checking that accursed options box in the IMAP folders dialog is something no user should ever need to do to find their "hidden folders".

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Re:Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP Client (2006) by taneq on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:47AM (#21375786)

Obviously there's some significant benefits to Outlook from an IT administration side (or it turns into a completely different beast when used with Exchange instead of IMAP) because as far as I can tell, it's otherwise awful on any number of axes.

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Re:Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP Client (2006) by a2tech on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:56AM (#21375831)

Outlook is a good email client only when used against Exchange. It should never be used as a stand alone client because while it CAN work as a POP3 and IMAP client, its terrible at it.

Its not even a good email client when used against Exchange but its 'good enough'

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