On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
I'd be curious to know what Dovecot does, since it seems to straddle this
line in some way.
I don't know.
Having said that, if we're talking about Alpine reading a local mail
spool, I don't see why compliance with IMAP's specifications is necessary.
Internally, Alpine, Pine, ipop3d, imapd, etc. are all interfaces to the
c-client library. There is no "only by Alpine and not by imapd".
c-client semantics are fundamentally IMAP semantics. c-client coerces all
other mail stores to look like IMAP to the application program.
Well, that's one reason the Debian bug tracker is nice: if we ship some
evilly hacked version of Alpine that includes some gross unsupported
Maildir patch, a Debian user will hopefully file a bug with us rather than
with you, and hopefully after warnings like this I'll be careful to check
if our modifications are the cause of the breakage.
Thanks for helping us out with that.
Quite a few users of third-party distributions contact us directly anyway.
If the user's issue is something in the c-client library and I don't
recognize the problem, the first thing that I suggest is "are you using a
third-party distribution? If so, try the unmodified UW distribution."
Much (more than 50%) of the time, that resolves the user's issue.
But they're not happy when I tell them that I can't do anything to fix the
issue in that third-party distribution........
-- Mark --
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