From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13581 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Sheehy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: IMAP (was Re: Quassia Gnus v0.22 is released) Date: 12 Jan 1998 17:04:35 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <0fyb0q4of0.fsf@fenris.mjolner.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152919 9944 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:28:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:28:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11629 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:05:54 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA04824 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:08:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAH26338; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:08:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:07:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA26317 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:06:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23472 invoked by uid 504); 12 Jan 1998 22:06:44 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23469 invoked from network); 12 Jan 1998 22:06:43 -0000 Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (129.83.10.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 12 Jan 1998 22:06:43 -0000 Original-Received: from caffeine.mitre.org (caffeine [129.83.10.136]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA28261 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 17:04:36 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by caffeine.mitre.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA26279; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 17:04:35 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "12 Jan 1998 08:24:58 +0100" Original-Lines: 36 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13581 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13581 Steinar Bang writes: > I have been using the UoW imapd, and it seems to be working pretty > well. I'm more concerned about clients. The only one I've had access > to for testing, is Netscape 4. I've looked at several. The problem is that each of them has (at least) one of two issues. 1) does not really act as an IMAP client ought to act, either uses IMAP as a glorified POP or has its own paradigm that is hacked around IMAP 2) is significantly different enough from any existing client that people will be unlikely to switch to it even if it DTRT. Issue #1 will end up being a possible problem for Gnus' nnimap at some point. For instance, I am not sure that nnagent and the IMAP concept of disconnectedness will mesh easily. However, I have been seeing a strong push toward using IMAP servers for mail in large institutions. Many people (myself included) would be quite uncomfortable having to use, say, PINE (ugh) to access their mail. I hope that imap support in Gnus manages to somehow take off soon. I regret not having the time to attack the problem in depth myself. -- Justin Sheehy In a cloud bones of steel.