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		herbst on April 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and ... Email, as in the protocol, only appears robust because of all the qirks. Essentially you cant build email infrastructure 100% after RFC and expect it to work in the real world.

twobitshifter on April 29, 2021 [–]

Is that because of RFC being incomplete or because other people started mangling messages?

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