On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:16:16AM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> retitle 392823 ITP: prayer -- fast IMAP-based web mail system with few 
> dependencies
> owner 392823 Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> thanks
> 
> I've sent some questions and comments upstream. Most notably, 
> 
>  * Prayer assumes that folders can't contain other folders, even if
>    the IMAP server supports it. It appears that Dovecot with Maildir
>    doesn't work very well with Prayer - all folders are treated as
>    directories. Directories are containers for folders and other
>    directories, but can't contain any mail. I don't know if this is
>    an unavoidable problem with libc-client, or just a design mistake 
>    in Prayer. Anyway Prayer probably works best with UW-imapd.

I hacked Prayer to work with Dovecot in a saner fashion; see:

http://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/webmail-sucks.html

>  * Currently, there is no IPv6 support. However, prayer-session uses
>    libc-client to connect to the IMAP server, and IPv6 support can be
>    acheived there by building with the version of libc-client currently
>    in experimental.

Sweet.

J.

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