Re: Exchange 2007 Issues When Copying Between Folders

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:06:41 +0200 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote: 
>
> SJ> Hi!  Sorry for not responding, I have been busy with other things,
> SJ> and I don't have much time to work on (nn)imap.el any more.  I have
> SJ> time to review concrete patches, but little time to help debug
> SJ> problems with some servers.
>
> Understood.
>
>> Ted Z wrote:
>>> I'm willing to dig further and maybe support imap.el if no one else
>>> wants it, but honestly the IMAP RFCs are unpleasant and annoy me, so I
>>> need a better explanation of the protocol.  Google was not helpful.  Can
>>> anyone suggest an IMAP primer I can read?  I'm interested in the actual
>>> protocol, so the more concrete the examples, the better.
>
> SJ> I'm not aware of any, and I would agree that the RFC is unfriendly...
> SJ> if you can't find any primer, just toggle imap-log and try to understand
> SJ> the commands send by Gnus for each operation that is needed.  Read the
> SJ> RFC for full explanations of some things.
>
> OK, I will try that.  I can take over imap.el and nnimap.el if no one
> else wants to do it and Simon is OK with it, though I'm no IMAP expert.

Perhaps we can co-maintain it, I'm still around for reviewing any
patches although I usually do not have time to help debug user problems.

/Simon