[Imap-protocol] [ann] lua imap server

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On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:53 PM, Brandon Long wrote:


> Sounds cool, but may have some implications on some clients.  There are

> some clients which don't support unsubscribing from folders, for instance,

> and will happily download all of the mail in those folders, which is

> presumably duplicated.


Yes, there is only one mail corpus per user account. A given message could show up under various (virtual) mailboxes.


>  That's probably only an issue if this is a general

> purpose server to be used for larger installations, though.


This is meant as a front end to a mail archiver of sort.


> Email addresses are probably good for uniqueness, but may be challenging in

> terms of understand-ability, may be challenging for some people to remember

> who each address is.


Yes, these name folders are meant to show the person name at some point. Just didn't get around implementing an UTF7 encoder yet.


> It might also be good to filter based on things like precedence bulk, or

> maybe require at least one message sent to that address as well to.


Yes, there are a couple of additional folders in the pipeline such as mailing lists, keywords, etc. 

In short, the mail store is meant to automatically organize the messages to a certain extend.

Thanks for the feedbacks.