[Dovecot] Fwd: [MORG] IMAP5 List
Joseph Yee
jyee at ca.afilias.info
Wed Aug 13 04:52:23 EEST 2008
Timo,
Thanks for bringing it up.
I dealt with i18n MUA. I would love to see i18n from IMAPEXT
(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5255.txt) be part of IMAP5, the mechanism,
not all language translations, of course :)
And I guess no MUA needs to 'ENABLE' anything in IMAP5.
Joseph
PS. I had subscribed to the mailing list :)
Timo Sirainen wrote:
> If anyone's interested, especially client developers. It's been a bit
> quiet there after the initial rush.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm.com>
>> Date: August 1, 2008 5:08:39 AM EDT
>> To: ietf-imapext at imc.org, morg at ietf.org
>> Subject: [MORG] IMAP5 List
>>
>> At the MORG BOF, a discussion as to if the proposed IMAP extensions
>> would merely further add to the existing problem with IMAP being too
>> hard to get right, for both clients and servers, let to a revival of
>> the "IMAP5" discussion (previous held during the IMAP EAI
>> discussions). Here, "IMAP5" refers to a Big Switch (new port and
>> version) to distinguish this revision from current IMAP. The goal is
>> to delete as much as possible from IMAP.
>>
>> A new mailing list now exists for this discussion on drastically
>> slimming-down IMAP to make it easier to implement clients and servers.
>>
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>>
>> It's been observed that "most IMAP clients suck" and that it's hard
>> for both clients and servers to implement.
>>
>> One reason IMAP is hard to implement is that it has a lot of options.
>> Often there are several alternative ways to accomplish something. It
>> also has considerable functionality.
>>
>> Is it possible and desirable to start with the current set of (IMAP +
>> all extensions) and consider subtracting as much as possible? The
>> resulting protocol would still be IMAP, but not backwards-compatible
>> with today's IMAP, since some currently-mandated items are likely to
>> be deleted.
>>
>> General information about the IMAP5 mailing list is at:
>> <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/imap5>.
>>
>> You can subscribe and manage your subscription at
>> <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/imap5>.
>>
>> --
>> Randall Gellens
>> Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only
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>> If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
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