[Nevermindmine]

> Although the protocol spec is tight

Are you talking about the IMAP RFC? It's the worst spec I have ever seen and so many parts are open to interpretation. If you think it's tight it must be because you didn't realized all the ambiguities.

[jivings]

My use case is pretty specific, I'm only dealing with a small subset.

I guess I was just lucky and can remain happily ignorant.