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i'm afraid i'd prefer to die first, so i'm unlikely to implement it.
pop3 is `yet another protocol that would not be needed if people used a (any)
reasonable file service protocol', but at least it's small.
imap is ludicrous. #C/cmd points to a simpler yet more general approach.
imap is a good example of `every protocol its own, disjoint operating system'.

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forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk writes:

> 
> i've got a pop3 implementation i can (will) give him.
> it's smaller than the bsd one, but still too much for such
> a simple protocol.

has imap been implemented?