On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 09:18 -0400, Paul Iadonisi wrote: > what, pray tell, is wrong with IMAP? Mostly the caching semantics, I'd imagine. Some people really hate the fact that you can't edit stuff stored on IMAP without changing the UID, and you can't change the UID without also changing the position in the folder. More people hate the fact that you have to re-fetch _all_ flags when you re-SELECT a folder, but the CONDSTORE stuff ought to fix that and make disconnected operation a little saner. I suspect more people hate IMAP due to idiocy in IMAP clients and servers rather than problems with IMAP itself. My main problem, for example, is the way that Evolution will insist on issuing STATUS on all of my hundreds of folders, even the archive folders which are marked inactive, sometimes with a RTT of about three seconds per folder, before it'll actually bother to fetch the mail I just clicked on. But that's not strictly an IMAP problem. Neither is the fact that Evolution will spend ages fetching multi-megabyte attachments over my ISDN line, just in order to run 'file' on them to see what they are, before displaying the text/plain part at the beginning which would have told me I didn't want to bother downloading it :) Sometimes I start up pine just to read my email while Evolution is doing its thing ;) -- dwmw2
