> The new buzz word, "cloud computing". Seeing google's email service > (supposedly "cloud computing") had 3 serious outages in the month of > August alone I really see this as a major improvement... not.
I just love the highly informative error message from Gmail's IMAP server when it is down: "System Error (Failure)". It's been a year, and Google still doesn't have an IMAP server that fully implements the function set of the base specification, much less implements it correctly. Google's point of view is that the only purpose of IMAP is to export mail to Outlook; other clients (and compliance with all those funny statements in the IMAP specification) do not matter. > Moving to exchange, now that would have been even more laughable. :-) The last that I heard, now that email is no longer a "core service" for UW's IT department, the aristocrats will get Exchange, while the peasantry (certainly all the students and alumni) will have to eat Gmail or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark -- _________________________________________________________________ Store, manage and share up to 5GB with Windows Live SkyDrive. http://skydrive.live.com/welcome.aspx?provision=1?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_skydrive_102008_______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
