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>>>>> "ajc" == Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@bing.wattle.id.au> writes:

ajc> john s anderson wrote :
>> I've done a small bit of preliminary noodling on implementing a
>> SQL-based mail archive. I was planning on making it
>> non-MUA-specific, so that if something better than Gnus came along
>> (inconceivable!), switching my MUA wouldn't affect my mail
>> archiving. (I've been burned on that before, with the
Postilion-> Gnus switch I did some months ago.)

ajc> Make it talk IMAP then ? :)

Hey, now there's a thought.  An IMAP-server-daemon in Perl that speaks
DBI on the back end.  Doable, *and* general purpose!

Is the nnimap: ready for prime-time?

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