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Yeah, OK - so you're doing what JMAP does but with a ton of search extension which STILL don't get you cross-folder support. Nice, problem solved - except you don't have a month to implement a good IMAP client, and neither does anyone else in the world.

Has ANYONE ever implemented a good IMAP client, in your opinion? If not, why not?

(JMAP is basically IMAP but more SQL-like, and without a bunch of custom syntax, yay)

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I think plenty of people have time to implement a good IMAP client, just not me because I have a job that is completely unrelated to writing mail clients.

http://trojita.flaska.net/

two developers, 5 years, not yet feature complete - but it's the closest thing to someone attempting to write a really good IMAP client based on the RFCs, and they've been active in mailing lists and IRC too.

Funny how nobody has actually built this mythical IMAP client you say is so easy.

Wow, way to attack a straw man there.

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