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

> we're talking about SMTP more than IMAP here.

SMTP first of all but both really. IMAP is more complex than SMTP. it
is very slow too - maybe for different reasons.

generally, it can takes less time to send, receive and read email.


> Text vs not text is not so much of a big issue there though,

bytes are sent across the wire. any transformations we perform are an
extra cost, come at a price. do we really absolutely need all of these
transformations?

btw even today we can ship utf8 or utf16 to a modern browser in binary
format - and parse the bytes in browser to display to the user.
obviously, single encoding across the message helps in this case.

think about this: original blob message- as sent - are shipped
directly to browser - no server parsing or indeed any transformations
on the server. ok, maybe filter messages somehow.
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