This messages has been posted on SquirrelMail development mailing list. Maybe someone is interested in morg mailing list.
Ciao, luigi
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [SM-DEVEL] An invitation to the "morg" (Message Organization) mailing list Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 17:08:03 +0300 To: squirrelmail-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Hello all,
[Note: Yes, I'm not gone after all... There has been a change of plans! I'll be mostly active, time permitting]
There is a new IETF effort on IMAP standards, continuing on the work of "IMAPExt" Working Group which has practically closed now. I'm sending this here because people might be interested in joining it and either contributing actively or simply keeping an eye on what will be available in IMAP servers soon.
Personally I'm very interested on message and mailbox annotations / metadata, but some other stuff like dynamic, multi-mailbox, persistent searches and virtual mailboxes might be of more interest to you.
Anyway, you can join this effort by subscribing to the morg mailing list: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/morg http://www.ietf.org/maillist.html
To quote Dave Cridland about the purpose of the list:
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This list has been created to look carefully at how existing mail clients search through, sort, and generally organize email. We're also going to - hopefully - have client developers talk about what they'd like to be able to do. There's another group that might be interested in this, too - the "desktop search" people might well be interested in the ability to search effectively through remote message stores.
Kjetil commented (on IMAPEXT) that this area might be very interesting to IMAP webmail people, who can't simply download everything and work locally, so if there are any IMAP webmail developers about it'd be interesting to hear from you, and if anyone knows any, please invite them to join.
Meanwhile, we're also going to look at what features we have on the store - the IMAP server - that we can leverage for this. There's a number of RFCs and Drafts in the area of searching, organization, etc, and we'll need to ensure we're all aware of the current state of play. So, IMAP specialists need to start to enumerate these - any volunteers?
It occurs to me that both the above might benefit from a Wiki page or two - Lisa, is there an Apps Wiki we can use for this, or should I just set one up? [For anyone new to the IETF, Lisa and Chris are the Applications Area Directors]
Finally, we'll look at what new work we can do to satisfy client requirements, write up a draft charter, and move to BOF (the first stage in forming a new IETF working group), aiming to form a new working group to do the work, and produce RFCs as we decide is appropriate. I'd like to take a decision on going down this road after Chicago in the summer, hopefully ready for a BOF at the IETF in December.
I personally think our ultimate output is likely to be some Standards Track and some Experimental specifications for extensions, and maybe a couple of Informational documents on how this stuff ties together.
I'd also note that searching is something that, like a lot of IETF work, has patent minefields in places - please do read that Note Well stuff, and let us know of any IPR you're aware of as soon as you can.
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