On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Florian Effenberger wrote:
Any chance that the UW IMAP pop proxy will get this functionality?

There's always a "chance" that anything can happen.

However, some chances are extremely small; and this is one of them.

An attempt to make POP3 support multiple IMAP mailboxes is like trying to make an abacus execute a large C program. Yes, with enough contortions and hard work, it can be done. But it's a pointless exercise.

The work required (both in software development) and in runtime (each time the POP3 server is run) is substantial. A better use of such resources is in developing an IMAP client. POP3 should be used for the purposes that POP3 was designed to accomplish. If you have IMAP needs, you should use IMAP.

-- Mark --

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