[EN] Software engineer @Gmail explains IMAP.

Kwaga would like to thank Jamie Nicolson for taking the time to write us and explain what happened the other day with Gmail IMAP:

"Unfortunately for us, the press reported the issue as our bug, when in fact we were trying to fix a bug. *sigh*, oh well. We're going to try pushing our change again at some point, but first we want to make an effort to make sure no one will be broken when we try again. It sounds like you guys fixed your code and are good to go.One way you could help us in the future would be by sending the IMAP ID command after you login (RFC 2971). This command is analogous to the user-agent string in HTTP. It lets us see which software we are talking to for a given IMAP session. This way we can keep track of which apps out there are talking to us and how they interact with our server, and we know who to contact about potential problems." - Jamie Nicolson, Software Engineer at Google