Hi Robert,

and who would want that sort of feature, when he can have imap? RSS/Atom is
more for webapps, which want to inform a user of site updates. 

This was only invented because there is no such feature as imap there...

kind regards

Juergen

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: robert burrell donkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gesendet: Samstag, 27. Januar 2007 12:37
> An: James Developers List; Serge Knystautas
> Betreff: RESTful email [WAS Re: MailboxManager API and session
> orientation was: Jsieve Configuration]
> 
> On 1/25/07, Serge Knystautas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 1/24/07, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > On 1/23/07, Serge Knystautas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > I would suggest looking briefly at the raw IMAP protocol.  It makes
> > > > the protocol nasty, but every command gets a unique token so that
> > > > requests and responses are asynchronous.  I would presume this is
> why
> > > > someone like Andy will question the larger scalability of the
> protocol
> > > > given its complexity and how the asynchronous nature of rich email
> is
> > > > built right into the protocol instead of having the client create
> > > > multiple HTTP connections in a REST style.
> > >
> > > not just Andy :-)
> > >
> > > there are quite a few of us, now...
> > >
> > > IMAP is broken. a new RESTful protocol is needed.
> > >
> > > an advanced server capable of supporting both a next generation
> > > protocol and IMAP would be very cool
> >
> > Yes, but... my company's new IMAP server provider supports the IDLE
> > command, so I get alerted immediately when a new email arrives
> > (http://email.about.com/od/emailbehindthescenes/g/imap_idle.htm).  I
> > did a test from my gmail account last night...  I swear 0.2 seconds
> > after I clicked "send", Thunderbird dinged and showed the newly
> > arrived message.  I almost thought it was an error message as I had
> > barely started moving my hand away from the keyboard.
> >
> > Ok, so it's not the killer app for email, but you would lose features
> > like that if you moved to a RESTful protocol AFAICT.
> 
> yes, you'd lose server push but a web feed (RSS or atom) for email
> would work adequately. it would also allow email to be more easily
> federated.
> 
> - robert
> 
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