If anyone's interested, especially client developers. It's been a bit
quiet there after the initial rush.

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From: Randall Gellens randy@qualcomm.com Date: August 1, 2008 5:08:39 AM EDT To: ietf-imapext@imc.org, morg@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

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-- Randall Gellens Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself
only -------------- Randomly-selected tag: --------------- If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.

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