The frustrating IMAP implementation of Gmail

2007.11.07 escrit per Pere Quintana Seguí

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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2 Respostes to “The frustrating IMAP implementation of Gmail”
  1. » Gmail’s IMAP is improving deUgarte.com ha dit:
    2007.11.17 a les 12:16 am

    [...] a long time ago, I wrote about the problems related to encodings that the implementation of IMAP made by the Gmail team had. [...]

  2. bitsenbloc » Blog Archive » Gmail’s IMAP is improving ha dit:
    2007.12.09 a les 2:21 am

    [...] escrit per Pere Quintana Seguí Not a long time ago, I wrote about the problems related to encodings that the implementation of IMAP made by the Gmail team had. [...]

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