Re: UW imap c-client

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Mark Moll <mmoll@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> I have used both nnimap 0.95 and Pine 4.10. Although nnimap is quite
> usable, the speed difference between nnimap and Pine is *huge*. I was
> wondering if anybody has looked at using Pine's imap back-end,
> c-client. I'm not a real xemacs wizard, but I can imagine that this
> c-client library can be plugged into xemacs 21.2 as a module. Would this
> be a good idea?

A first pass of this could be to try and use a c-client based stub program
in a subprocess.  The nice thing about having all the nnimap stuff done in
lisp is that things like my socks.el library or ssl.el can be used as well
to modify how the connection is made.

-Bill P.