On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Norman Maurer
<[email protected]> wrote:

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>>> Would it be worth discussing where James IMAP is going in the near-term
>>> and whether we should coordinate.
>>>
>>
>> You are totally right. I'd be glad if we could find a good design for IMAP
>> and implement it as soon as possible, not least because my maildir
>> implementation will be affected by this process.

IMAP is a subtle protocol. designs are non-trivial.

>> I'd like to build on a relatively stable structure.

use an internal API, then any changes can be bridged. a good
commons-style Maildir library would be really useful generally and
much easier to debug. so that's where i'd start.

>> That would, by the way, be my only objection to
>> releasing James too soon. First we should stabilize the IMAP stuff.

release often, release early ;-)

better to ship something with a low version number

> Me too. I did a lot of refactoring over the last weeks and sometimes I
> feel like just turning cycles..

+1

always seemed like that to me as well...

> I the long term I would like to see
> some kind of async processing for mailboxes. But I think thats not
> feasible in the short term.

dunno

the reworking i did always had async in mind. last time i looked,
should be reasonably easy to flip into the message passing paradigm...

- robert

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