[Cialug] IMAP

Josh More jmore at starmind.org
Wed Oct 19 13:55:42 CDT 2011


There's nothing wrong with IMAP that's not wrong with the rest of the email
system (POP3, SMTP, etc).

IMAPS is better, of course.

-Josh

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been hearing, by people I don't trust, that IMAP is an antiquated
> protocol that should die altogether.  This is as far from what I have
> understood as it is possible to get.  What's wrong with IMAP?  And why
> have I not heard of any Internet standard replacement for it, if it
> really is known to be on the way out?
>
> Can someone enlighten me?
>
> --
> Todd
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