How IMAP works under the hood

Re:How IMAP works under the hood by throw0101d on Monday March 31, 2025 @08:21AM (#43534129)

> Interesting no attempt has been made to make it at least be less heavy on networked bytes.

Kind of a surprising observation given the first spec (IMAP2) was released in 1998, when dial-up was still a thing:

IMAP4 was in 1994:

ITU V.32 gave us 9.6 kbit/s in 1998, and V.34 was 28.8 kbit/s in 1994:

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Re:How IMAP works under the hood by throw0101d on Monday March 31, 2025 @10:45AM (#43535650)

s/1998/1988/

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