Re:Developers: stop re-AOLizing the web!
by tomasien on Thursday July 03, 2014 @09:19AM
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I'm not 100% sure but I thought Mailbox needed access to certain things that are outside IMAP to do what it does. For instance, it makes its own folder in Gmail that it interacts with, and I'm not 100% sure if "Archive" is a standard IMAP function.
I'm not an IMAP dev so I'm open to hearing differently from someone who knows better, but it was my understanding a network-neutral IMAP solution wasn't tenable.
Re:Developers: stop re-AOLizing the web!
by rcamera on Thursday July 03, 2014 @09:25AM
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K-9 mail on Android uses IMAP and it creates new folders, as well as archive my email to my "Archive" folder without a problem. There should be absolutely no reason a mail application couldn't use IMAP to communicate with mail servers.
I'm not an IMAP dev so I'm open to hearing differently from someone who knows better, but it was my understanding a network-neutral IMAP solution wasn't tenable.