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How IMAP works under the hood

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238 points michidk | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 09:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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therein ◴[31 Mar 25 09:28 UTC] No.43532935[source]▶
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.

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1. csb6 ◴[31 Mar 25 17:49 UTC] No.43537720[source]▶
There is an extension that adds compression. [0] I think most widely-used servers implement it (at least Gmail and Dovecot do)

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4978.html