On Tue, 24 May 2005 07:37:56 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >Gaby vanhegan dixit: > >> we still have a lot of legacy mbox accounts. > >uw-imapd can read (and write) a plethora of formats using >libc-client. Except Maildir, which they consider unsafe to >access and insane to implement.
You really believe those UW people really can consider something unsafe before they clean up their own exploit history? Insane? The sky is falling! I don't know about many IMAP servers but I know that UW-IMAP is considered less than favourably in many circles. Hell, the last one I saw on RHL didn't even call itself UW-IMAP - it had some strange 2001-18 sort of name. I don't use courier but: http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/ might make you think again. At least it is based on experiments where all the processes and environments are defined. Then there is: http://www.courier-mta.org/fud/ which shows you just what a nice guy Crispin is, eh? He really is the right guy to write RFCs, is he? (yeah, I know, DJB can be a bit of a Grumpy Old Man (to steal the title of a great TV series from GB) but I'd never take him for stupid. Mark, on the other hand lets his ego get in the way of reality and secure programming methods too, it seems to me. Hardly in the class of the great class act of email RFCs, the late, and much missed, Jon Postel..... I've seen a number of comments from writers of IMAPd packages who cannot figure out how he thinks UW complies let alone how anyone else is meant to comply. > >In my ~/mail/ on the server, there are some mbox/unix >and some MBX folders in peaceful coexistence. > >//mirabile >-- <snip irrelevant humbug> >From the land "down under": Australia. Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over? Do NOT CC me - I am subscribed to the list. Replies to the sender address will fail except from the list-server.
