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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: 0.21s | 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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zaik ◴[31 Mar 25 10:41 UTC] No.43533375[source]▶
Despite people always complaining about their perceived inefficiencies, standard protocols like IMAP or XMPP always seem to work on a crappy connection, when most of the modern web doesn't.
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1. andrewshadura ◴[01 Apr 25 11:28 UTC] No.43545484[source]▶
Is this a joke? Both XMPP and IMAP are terrible over an unreliable connection.