Re: ACAP?

[Amos <amos@utdallas.edu>]

>>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

SJ> Is anyone actually using ACAP today? What applications use it?
SJ> Sorry for my ignorance.

The two main players in this game right now appear to be the mail
clients Simeon and Mulberry, both of which we use on our campus.
Actually, they are both using the predecessor to ACAP, IMSP.

Mulberry is nice because you can build a locked down installer.  We
just distribute this binary to folks and it installs all
preconfigured.  Any user settings are all saved on the IMSP server.
Combined with IMAP, folks can look at their mail from any machine,
any location, and it always comes up just as they had it before they
left the last session.  Not only is this convenient for the user,
but it makes support really trivial.

I know the cyrusoft.com folks are working to make Mulberry ACAP
ready, if it isn't already.  I think the CMU ACAP server is still
beta, or even alpha, but its progressing along.  Originally Netscape
went with LDAP instead of ACAP because it wasn't anywhere to being
settled.  I think before they were bought by AOL they were saying
they would eventually do ACAP, but who knows now.  I've also heard
the SIMS folks at Sun were planning on supporting ACAP on their
servers.  And I think PINE will be supporting ACAP, if 4.10 doesn't
already.  (In the pine-info archive I saw a message from one of the
PINE folks that had an example of an ACAP setting in the conf file,
though I haven't dug further into it.)

I suspect ACAP may be like IMAP, slow to start, but gradually
getting more attention.  We'll see.  Though, until then I'm going to
give that efs suggestion a try.  Looks rather interesting.  Thanks!

I must say, this gnus stuff is just so way cool.  :-)

amos