On Thu, Feb 16, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > To get "good" clients, you need mind-share, and you'll only get that > if you start off with the status quo and figure out where to go - or > if you base on another preexisting framework. Lots of folk are doing > this very successfully with the web, of course, but I think there are > other options, too.
Or if you provide a better-enough experience that the switching cost is worth it to enough client authors. > All this talk of a boil-the-ocean brave-new-world is great fun, I'll > be the first to admit, but I really don't see how it gets us anywhere > useful. I see three choices: a) We want to spend the rest accessing our email with IMAP + layers of hotfixes, with an ever more complex set of potentially partially implemented capabilities. b) We want to switch to Exchange protocol (as per Mark's comment earlier) c) Neither of the above. If (c), what then. It's already going to be really hard. If we wait longer to start, it will keep getting harder. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana [email protected] _______________________________________________ imap5 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/imap5
