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> Especially standards better adapted to present and future needs: mobile use - lower latency & fewer round trips, lower end-user device power usage. IMAP deve
by throw0101c 4y ago
> Especially standards better adapted to present and future needs: mobile use - lower latency & fewer round trips, lower end-user device power usage.
IMAP development started in the 1980s (RFC 1064), and was run over POTS modems for many decades: I find it hard to believe that it can't handle the 'low-end' of things.
The fact that many clients assume high-end / high-speed links is not a fault of the protocol.