On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:17:02AM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> I know about that Courier-IMAP feature. Will discuss this with Claudio
> again. Maybe we will make it a compile time option.

That would be much appreciated - thanks!

> BTW: We are very much looking to move away from recommending courier-
> imap. Mr. Sams coding style isn't very good and his world order of
> running the stuff is not our cup of tea either. We'll announce when
> we've decided for someone else.

Having worked with the Courier-IMAP source before, I can say his coding
style is not the prettiest. What else are you considering? I've seen Binc
and Dovecot, but haven't looked much into either of them.

> The only thing ip based pop3 solves is the uid name space collision
> problem.

Yes, but it's a difficult problem to solve properly without IP-based virtual
hosting. :-)

> > Our users can retrieve their mail via POP3 or via a webmail interface.
> > If they read a message in the webmail interface, this patch will add a
> > Status: header to the message when it's fetched via POP3. Some (most?)
> > MUAs will honor this header when displaying message status, so the
> > message will also appear as read in their MUA.
> 
> Can you give some specific example how such an Status line looks like?
> Is there a specification somewhere? I'm unable to find that patch with
> google.

I couldn't find an official spec anywhere, but I did find plenty of
references to Outlook Express and Eudora using it. I've posted a copy of the
patch at http://horde.net/~jwm/software/misc/.

> Actually we haven't met many (any?) Linux user who actually did care
> at all. When presented the option all have chosen super fast async
> ext2/ext3 over slow reliable queueing. For power outages they've got
> the UPS. So no problem and no "risk". Yea, sure...

(with apologies to Benjamin Franklin) Those who would sacrifice safety for
performance deserve neither safety nor performance.

BTW, qmail-ldap's freshmeat entry needs to be updated for the latest
release.

john
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