Kai Henningsen writes:
Well, I would not so much disbelieve that this is done, as much as
that doing this is particuölarly sane. Reading the IMAP RFC makes for
an interesting experience, but I wouldn't call it particularly
pleasant.
IMAP has some useful features, yes, but the protocol that implements them
is more than baroque.
Could you elaborate that opinion?
I've implemented both (NNTP as both client and server) and my experience
is that IMAP is about as good as it reasonably could be. The task of
managing e-mail is complex, and old protocols and APIs have warts -
that's just how it is.
NNTP was really simple to understand and implement, but that simplicity
is bought at the expense of completeness. For example, IMAP has
UIDVALIDITY while NNTP has a pretense that article numbers never
change.
--Arnt