Comment on How IMAP works under the hoodparentComments−userbinator1yYou can group all this under the a heading of "we thought people would use this over telnet"No, the grammar is too convoluted for that. It's more like "we thought text-based protocols are better".POP3 and SMTP are relatively easy to use manually. IMAP is not.
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You can group all this under the a heading of "we thought people would use this over telnet"
No, the grammar is too convoluted for that. It's more like "we thought text-based protocols are better".
POP3 and SMTP are relatively easy to use manually. IMAP is not.