[Dovecot] Webmail app ... again.

[Roderick A. Anderson]

There was a thread several weeks (or months) ago on webmail applications.

I didn't like any of the options and only found few that I did but they 
were either expensive or not maintained.

So ... I raised the question on the Catalyst Framework list about Perl 
based webmail apps and got nothing usable.  It came down to what would 
it take to build a Perl (Cat) webmail app.

Several others on the list got interested so we decided to build it. 
The main issue I run into is my lack of understanding of the 
ins-and-outs of the IMAP specification and the features that come with 
using Dovecot. (Oh yeah.  Dovecot was the preferred IMAP server!)

Another project I'm working on uses IMAP and what I found was there is a 
great quantity of Perl modules for dealing with IMAP.  A great quantity! 
   Unfortunately many of them assume a deeper knowledge of IMAP than I 
have so are very confusing.

What I'm looking for is a good reference, besides the RFC, on IMAP. 
Anything out there?  Electronic or dead-tree is fine. (A book of Dovecot 
would be neat too.)


TIA,
Rod
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