Re: [Imap-protocol] If Crispin were creating IMAP today how would it be different?

Speaking of new protocols, implementations of new email protocols can
be made much easier for developers and faster for users if a switch
were made from text-based to binary formats.

With binary formats, parsing is greatly simplified. Case conversion
become unnecessary.

Specify expected data length as a number of bytes. CRLF, empty lines
lose any special meaning and become part of the text. No need for line
wrap or any text modification.

Commands and mime-types are exact binary sequence.

Encode all text as e.g. UTF-8 for transmission - here goes away back
and forth charset conversion.

Even if current command-response command sequence were kept - apart
from these simple changes, email servers would work faster and more
reliably.
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