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Re:Gluon, a high-performance IMAP library by lucideer on Friday February 24, 2023 @04:43PM (#34930532)
> i figured by now that it would be far more popular than it is, and that it would have been implemented by many more entities by now. Oh well.

Well IMAP is 37 years old and Google still haven't gotten around to implementing it properly. Email as a technology moves pretty slowly.

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Re:Gluon, a high-performance IMAP library by Avamander on Friday February 24, 2023 @05:25PM (#34931009)
To be fair here, IMAP has some terrible ideas that have only been remedied with later standards.

For example the (in)famous label thing, why should a letter belong in a single folder. Pointless restriction.

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Re:Gluon, a high-performance IMAP library by lucideer on Friday February 24, 2023 @05:46PM (#34931256)
What's the infamous label thing? Are you talking about IMAP or Gmail's broken implementation?

I was under the impression the first public IMAP spec had support for "flags"... did it need later fixing?

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Re:Gluon, a high-performance IMAP library by mxuribe on Friday February 24, 2023 @04:57PM (#34930691)
Lol! You are so right on all points there!!! :-D
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