Re: nnimap 0.3.11 released

[Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org>]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> Not if you look at it from my perspective.  IMAP may be a very
> different protocol than POP, etc.  But it is still just a backend to
> a mail server that is delivering mail.  As such, I can see viewing
> it as a drop-in replacement for my current POP access and to expect
> all nnmail stuff to work.

Hmm.

I think of IMAP in a completely different way than POP.

POP is only useful for delivering mail.  IMAP is an entire mail
system, also encompassing mail storage, readedness, selective actions
on individual messages, etc.

One can use it as a trivial mail-delivery mechanism like POP, but it
is truly something much bigger than that.

> Are you viewing this differently than me?

I think so.

Also, from the look of the nnimap code at this point, it seems to
resemble a read-write sort of nntp more than a new nnmail backend.

This is not entirely unreasonable, as IMAP and NNTP both consist of
message access and idividual actions via network protocol, as opposed
to nnmail's local filesystem-orientedness.

-Justin