Re: Exchange 2007 Issues When Copying Between Folders

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:06:41 +0200 Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote: 

SJ> Hi!  Sorry for not responding, I have been busy with other things,
SJ> and I don't have much time to work on (nn)imap.el any more.  I have
SJ> time to review concrete patches, but little time to help debug
SJ> problems with some servers.

Understood.

> Ted Z wrote:
>> I'm willing to dig further and maybe support imap.el if no one else
>> wants it, but honestly the IMAP RFCs are unpleasant and annoy me, so I
>> need a better explanation of the protocol.  Google was not helpful.  Can
>> anyone suggest an IMAP primer I can read?  I'm interested in the actual
>> protocol, so the more concrete the examples, the better.

SJ> I'm not aware of any, and I would agree that the RFC is unfriendly...
SJ> if you can't find any primer, just toggle imap-log and try to understand
SJ> the commands send by Gnus for each operation that is needed.  Read the
SJ> RFC for full explanations of some things.

OK, I will try that.  I can take over imap.el and nnimap.el if no one
else wants to do it and Simon is OK with it, though I'm no IMAP expert.

Ted