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230 points michidk | 3 comments | 29 Mar 25 09:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.484s | source

1. nashashmi ◴[31 Mar 25 13:18 UTC] No.43534731[source]▶

Can IMAP be used as a file server system? Outlook has this functionality, where files can be stored directly outside of emails.

2. SSLy ◴[31 Mar 25 15:06 UTC] No.43535885[source]▶

most servers would reject entries without any headers as malformed

3. thesuitonym ◴[31 Mar 25 18:29 UTC] No.43538125[source]▶

This is one of those questions where the answer is technically `yes', but for all practical purposes should be considered `no'.

How IMAP works under the hood