A long time ago I wrote a toy IMAP client, and ran into similarly confusing issues about how the protocol is supposed to work: https://github.com/evmar/go-imap

A long time ago I wrote a toy IMAP client, and ran into similarly confusing issues about how the protocol is supposed to work: https://github.com/evmar/go-imap/blob/master/imap/doc.go https://github.com/evmar/go-imap/blob/master/imap/doc.go