On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Adrian Urquhart wrote: > >I've been using Pine with Courier for a long time and I'd like to carry > >on using it as that's what I'm familiar with. BTW has anyone had a look > >at Cone, a new console IMAP client written by the author of Courier? > >(Found it on freshmeat). > > The first thing I'd look into in this console app would be in what sense > it is incompatible with the RFC ;-). > > Sam isn't really known in the IMAP protocol community to respect the > protocol in any sense.. he gets these ideas about where the protocol is > wrong, and then he implements this instead of airing his ideas on the IMAP > mailing list. But I'm interested to see what Cone is all about. >
I must admit, this was my first thought - I'll bet it works great with Courier! Do you have any feelings on the new SMAP protocol he mentions? Do we need it in the first place, and is it likely to be taken seriously in the IMAP/SMTP world? -Adrian
