On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Toby Betts wrote: >The part that acknowledges Maildir usually wins. The reason that Binc is >so wonderful is due in part because of this: Binc doesn't corrupt mail. >Adding other storage formats is going to break something, somewhere, and >Binc is going to get the blame.
What you are saying is very true. I agree completely. At the same time, Binc IMAP has one property that no other IMAP server has, and that is towards developers out there that need IMAP access to arbitrary backends, be it sql servers, ldap (God forbid) databases or wierd ssh-over-imap backends. For these developers, Binc IMAP will be the server that they can download, unpack, understand, and then incorporate into their systems. Other servers aren't even close to this. This is why there has been laid down so much work on creating a good API towards the backend. Binc IMAP can support several backends, and they can even coexist inside the same depot. Whether mbox support is implemented directly in Binc IMAP or not, that is for the community (you!) to decide. If this is not an attractive feature, then I see no reason for writing it. But Binc IMAP isn't going to be a Maildir only server, whether it be me who writes the backends for it or not. Andy :-) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."
