The frustrating IMAP implementation of Gmail

novembre 7th, 2007 § 2 comentaris

I always have been a happy user of Gmail. Its inteface is probably one of the most interesting interfaces ever done for e-mail. However, I also like to read my e-mail through IMAP, it allows me to use Gmail off-line.

But this IMAP implementation has a huge problem. It doesn’t deal well with character encodings. Many messages that I can read well from the web interface or after having downloaded them through POP, don’t show well through IMAP. I tried this with Thunderbird and with Mail.app.

Google has always been encoding savvy, but it looks like this time they forgot we live in a multilingual world.

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