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List:       imap
Subject:    Re: Envelope mangling
From:       Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt () gulbrandsen ! priv ! no>
Date:       2003-05-24 8:17:48
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Mark Crispin writes:
> On Fri, 23 May 2003, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>  While canonicalisation in matches is arguably the correct thing to 
>>  do, why is it useful to do it when just providing the information 
>>  to the client? You can only lose information; you gain nothing 
>>  AFAICT.
>
> The whole purpose of ENVELOPE is to provide a canonical form.

What Mark isn't saying (and which I wish I had known sooner) is that a 
client which uses ENVELOPE and friends can avoid parsing e.g. rfc822 
addresses.

--Arnt
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