On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 22:04 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I don't have any figures or stats. But everywhere I look, I see no signs of > life. On Usenet, comp.mail.imap used to carry respectable daily traffic a > while ago. It's a ghost town now, maybe a dozen posts a year, for the last > 4-5 years, if not longer. > > I looked up a few other IMAP-related mailing lists that I know of, earlier > this year. Also a pale shadow of their former selves. > > I wish I could say otherwise, but that's what it is. The flip side of the > coin is that IMAP is a mature protocol. It does its job, and there is no > viable replacement for it. As long as there's still a need for a > standardized client/server mail system, where either the client or the > server component is interchangable, IMAP will still be there. I just don't > think there's any opportunity to grow mindshare.
I'm really distressed to hear this. I run a small mail hosting service and recommend IMAP to my customers over POP3 all the time. My server's spam management system relies on special IMAP mail folders which are dumped into or routed out of SpamAssassin with various designations, and the system would be crippled without it. I consider IMAP to be superior to POP3 on several counts, not the least of which is that my POP3 customers, through improper setting of their mail clients' POP3 configs, often end up with many megabytes of invisible old mail which progressively slows down their mail retrieval when it builds up. With IMAP, what you see is what you have. Oh well, I'm just an old geezer, 72 years old, who got to working with the Internet back in the early 90s. I appreciate the simplicity, flexibility and security of the old, mature mail protocols. I probably won't be doing this too much longer. -- Lindsay Haisley | "UNIX is user-friendly, it just FMP Computer Services | chooses its friends." 512-259-1190 | -- Andreas Bogk http://www.fmp.com | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
