parsing IMAP responses?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Grant Edwards wrote:

>>> Is there a library somewhere that impliments the IMAP protocol
>>> syntax?
>>
>> It's very messy.
>
> It sure is.  You'd think something intended to be machine-readable
> would be easier to parse.

nobody knows what the IMAP protocol designers intended...

(it's not quite as bad as Netscape's Mork format, but it's pretty close)

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