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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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