[plug] mta differences

[Bill Kenworthy]

For a while I was on the evo list and had a few one sided discussions
with the developers over imap/IE compatibility.  Their angle is they are
implementing the standards as they see them.  If any other email
server/client does things differently, then it is broken.  If they dont
work nicely with evo, then they are broken.  Not their problem.

I eventually dropped off the list as its high traffic, hopefully things
(i.e., personalities) may have changed and they have become a bit less
idealistic, then again evo still doesnt do imap well ...

BillK

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 10:38, Craig Ringer wrote:

> OK, I'm confused now. Cyrus allows many concurrent accesses to the same
> mailbox (it needs to be able to, as it supports shared mailboxes), so OE
> and Evo should be able to be connected _at_ _the_ _same_ _time_.
> 
...
> Evolution does seem to do some sort of delayed commit of things like
> flag changes, so this sounds like something I could see happening with
> Cyrus. I think Evo only writes flags back to the server when the mailbox
> is closed (by selecting a new mailbox).
> 
> It's worth noting that Evolution's IMAP implementation is less than
> stellar, and the Evolution developers don't seem too interested in
> fixing it. Lots of bugzilla entries refer to 'the imap rewrite' but it
> doesn't seem to be something that's going to happen any time soon. 
> 
> I wish they'd just use c-client as the base, and be done with it. They'd
> get authorization/authentication and SASL support for free. I suspect
> they can't because of threading issues and/or dependencies, though.
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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