From: Mark Crispin Subject: beware of "Courier-IMAP" Date: 2000/03/10 Message-ID: #1/1 To: IMAP Interest List Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: help@cac.washington.edu X-Trace: nntp6.u.washington.edu 952727989 17754 (None) 140.142.17.39 Organization: Networks & Distributed Computing Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.mail.imap NNTP-Posting-User: koma The Courier-IMAP server is non-compliant with the IMAP specification, and its author states that he has no intention to make Courier-IMAP compliant: > It's completely absurd. The parser in Courier-IMAP is a straightforward > parser, so I treat [ and ] as distinct lexical units, so they are rejected > when sent as part of an unquoted string. I'm not going to insert a bunch > of spaghetti code, and break something, just to comply with completely > nonsensical portions of IMAP4rev1. -- Mark -- * RCW 19.190 notice: This email address is located in Washington State. * * Unsolicited commercial email may be billed $500 per message. * Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.