Forrest Aldrich wrote:
Ken Murchison wrote:
Wesley Craig wrote:
On 17 Jul 2006, at 09:59, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
Short answer, there are no good books. Managing IMAP is minimally
useful - in a basic sense.
The one salient chapter happens to be online:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/chapter/ch09.html
if that helps.
However, I contacted O'Reilly about a possible "Nutshell" book, and
as I recall the response was there were no plans for anything.
And so, we have this large scalable product that doesn't have a good
book - it's complex enough that it deserves one.
I would think there's a good market fo a Cyrus IMAP book. Did
_Managing IMAP_ sell particularly poorly?
I along with several current and former CMU folks have talked numerous
times about writing a Cyrus book (our preference would be to do it
with O'Reilly), but we've never gotten beyond the "it would be a good
idea stage).
Perhaps if we get a "Cyrus Center" up and running with proper funding,
we'd be able to consider authoring a book more seriously.
This would be a wonderful idea. I think this is well overdue,
particularly after the addition of Cyrus Murder.
A great opportunity to get more Cyrus out there, and better reference,
examples, etc.
Assuming the potential authors know what they're talking about ;)
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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University
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