On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 04:14 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
I just can't help but make a side observation that these kinds of clumsy ways of doing basic stuff with mail, via IMAP, were one of the reasons why I designed and implemented the experimental SMAP protocol, in Courier-IMAP 2.x. SMAP has a simple “remove”, and a simple “move” operation (and still offers an IMAP-like copy/delete/expunge paradigm for those that still want to do it this way) which will never have a problem if the disk quota is full.
But there are no clients on Mac or windows that support SMAP ..(not that i know of anyways) ..so what are we supposed to do ?
I wouldn't expect any, at this stage in the game.
I suppose that if you have a favorite open source mail client, you could pass along upstream some mild comments how useful you find some of the SMAP-specific particulars, enumerated at http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/. Perhaps you like the native UTF-8 folder names, and no longer having keep track of low-level server details, like the folder hierarchy separator. Or, opening a folder with thousands of messages takes only a second, or two; since the client doesn't need to download the entire's folder index, only what's changed since the last time the folder was opened. Etc...
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