How IMAP works under the hood

Interesting no attempt has been made to make it at least be less heavy on networked bytes. Especially since it is old and was meant to be used on a connection with no compression or encryption.

HasChildren could have been Parent, HasNoChildren could have been Leaf or Child. And so many more things.

> Interesting no attempt has been made to make it at least be less heavy on networked bytes.

Kind of a surprising observation given the first spec (IMAP2) was released in 1998, when dial-up was still a thing:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1064

IMAP4 was in 1994:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1730

ITU V.32 gave us 9.6 kbit/s in 1998, and V.34 was 28.8 kbit/s in 1994:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ITU-T_V-series_recomme...