i know there have been a couple of fuse attempts at imap
integration -- i don't recall how far they've gotten. if it
weren't for possibly already having been done, i'd think that
would be an almost ideal summer-of-code project, since it would
be a somewhat stand-alone project, and something with pretty
well-understood requirements. and there wouldn't be a lot
of code archaeology needed to implement it, unlike some other
possible projects.
A good IMAP client isn't something you're going to write in a few months,
and certainly not by a student with no prior IMAP implementation
experience.. IMAP has a lot of subtle behaviours that make writing *good*
clients difficult until you've had a non-trivial amount of experience
actually implementing the protocol. At one company I worked at we went
through three complete ground-up redesigns of our IMAP server over three
years before we came up with something we were happy with.
A FUSE based imapfs isn't a suitable candidate for a GSOC project.
--lyndon
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