On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:25 -0700, Mark Crispin wrote: > IMAP extensions are not used much for the following reasons: > > [1] Almost all IMAP extensions are worthless garbage. > > Oh, they may be valuable to some limited constituency, but not generally. I guess that depends on your target audience. For traditional desktop IMAP clients most extensions are worthless. For mobile clients I guess many would be valuable in theory, but since the server support for extensions is (still) so low I have some doubts as to if/when they start supporting e.g. Lemonade extensions. Anyway, most of the extensions I implement nowadays are going to be used by webmails. Webmail users want to do everything and they want everything to work immediately, so anything that helps there is useful. I guess those features could also be implemented in a non-standard way, but I do see it useful to standardize them so that webmails aren't tied to specific server implementations.
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