"Lyndon" == Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(_at_)orthanc(_dot_)ca> writes:
Lyndon> A good IMAP client isn't something you're going to write in
Lyndon> a few months, and certainly not by a student with no prior
Lyndon> IMAP implementation experience.. IMAP has a lot of subtle
Lyndon> behaviours that make writing *good* clients difficult until
Lyndon> you've had a non-trivial amount of experience actually
Lyndon> implementing the protocol. At one company I worked at we
Lyndon> went through three complete ground-up redesigns of our IMAP
Lyndon> server over three years before we came up with something we
Lyndon> were happy with.
Is a single threaded IMAP *CLIENT* really as complex as the server side?
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