[Imap-uw] Mix format? must have? Project direction? [was Re: imap-2007b on SLES10SP1]

[Linda Walsh]

Oscar del Rio wrote:

> Jarmila Holcova wrote:

>>  > I'm about to move mail server for 15000 users to a new server. The

>>  > SLES10SP1 distribution contains imap-2004. I would like to use the

>>  > newest version.

>> The build is ok but I decided to use the rpm from the SLES 

>> distribution in the end.

>> What a coward am I!

>> Thanks though.

>

> As Mark would say, IMAP-2004 is ancient and there were many 

> features/fixes introduced since then.  For example, I don't think 

> IMAP-2004 had "mix" format, which IMHO is a "must have" nowadays.

> _______________________________________________

Mix format?  Why is that a "must have" nowadays?

Also, As for 2007'c', where would one obtain sources for it? 
I take it that it was never actually officially released, but I
seem to remember Mark saying it was "ready to go".

As for other features/work -- does anyone know if another UW project is 
picking
up imapw?  It seems to be fairly widely used.

It seems that Cyrus IMAP is the only open-source alternative available 
that has
any 'traction'?  I've been unwilling to abandon the "mbox" format 
compatibility
provided by IMAP -- though heaven knows, how many 3rd party open-source
plug-ins don't handle the format (w/rt "From ") correctly all the time. 

Not sure I know of many that do.  I get "ribbed" by occasional mbox chomping
by Perl-scripts using CPAN modules and some derivations based on 
Berkeley Mail
8.x -- like the 'Nail' version that provides Mail/mailx drop-in support.
(Maybe that means I'm not 'ribbed' by chomping, but 'nailed'??)...:-|

Linda