Have you considered outsourcing an IMAP server for your software? Several people, including the Cyrus project and Maclean Sofware, offer suitable software.

See http://www.maclean.com/imap/home.html, for example.
Thanks for that site I'll show it to my boss but we develope in Delphi and the IMAP Server Engine is written in C.
I think it is not real difficult to write an IMAP Server so I think we get on going with our solution. The only Problem is
that having only the RFCs and no real other document means a lot of trial-by-error work. So I'm glad there is such an
mailing list like this. I have never seen people answering so fast and I use a lot of discussion board, mailing list etc.

You may consider me prejudiced since I would certainly like you to license my server engine -- and that is fair enough.  However I will say that writing an IMAP server is neither an easy nor a quick undertaking.  I reckon that I have put at least two solid years of work into mine and I found it a challenging task.  And that is despite the fact that I have loads of experience writing servers.

Integrating my server code with Delphi should be no problem.  The most obvious way would be to build the engine as a DLL.

Pete Maclean

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