Re: IMAP client status

[Alain Magloire]

> Hi,
> 
> Is it (already) possible to use the mailutils IMAP client library as a
> replacement for the UW IMAP client library I'm using it for PHP support,
> but i don't like the size/speed of this library).

The base support is done so doing

# MAIL=imap://address@hidden ./from
Imap Passwd: xxxx
Alexandre Oliva Re: grep-2.4.2 -v x -f /dev/null
Bob Proulx      grep-2.4.2 -v x -f /dev/null
Hubert Feyrer   Bug Report: grep -v -A1 doesn't do as expected
Paul Eggert     Re: grep-2.4.2 -v x -f /dev/null
Paul Eggert     Re: Bug Report: grep -v -A1 doesn't do as expected
....

and using it will work.  But :

- The code is not thourougly tested, code is young.
- There is no thread safe guard yet.
- Good documentation is still scarce.

The good news is that I'm currently implementing the
imap4d server, this will help stabilize very quickly the IMAP
client side.

There was also the plan to make a thin emulation c-client
layer so moving from one to the other will be easier.  I will
look at this _after_.  From many emails exchange, I think this
will be important and a general good thing to have.

The c-client had mature and stabilize a lot of the years.
One may no like how it is done, but it is solid code.

> Erik

Erik, thanks for the feedback and keeping track.
The project is moving forward and next time you'll ping
We hope to have a more flamatory answer like :
" Drop the c-client, it's evil !!" ;-)

-- 
au revoir, alain
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