On Thursday, 27 July 2000 at 14:41, Bob Bell wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:59:43AM -0700, Chris Cutler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Actually, I think my question was misleading. . . what I intended to
> > ask was how much of the IMAP4rev1 standard mutt currently implements.
> > (I only mentioned earlier standards in order to differentiate.) It
> > sounds, from discussion on this list, like mutt is pretty good in
> > this respect, but the README in the imap directory of the 1.2.4
> > distribution does not inspire confidence.
>
> Good point. It looks like this is leftover from the 1.1 series.
> I think it should be updated for the 1.2/1.3 series as it's now more
> stable. Brendan, care to do so? I could give it a whirl if you don't
> have the time, but you're probably the right man for the job.
hmm. here's a start. I didn't put a whole lot of effort into
it. Frankly, I've been concentrating on 1.3 for a while, so I've
gotten a bit befuddled about what is in 1.2 vs 1.0. Maybe you 1.2
users would like to fix this up a bit :)
Actually I'm planning to set up something at
http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/
hopefully including a getting started guide, known quirks, current
projects and wishlist. But it isn't up and running yet.
-Brendan
Mutt's IMAP support is reasonably good, although still a little rough around
the edges. It has been tested with fairly good results against the following
IMAP4rev1 servers:
* UW-IMAP
* Cyrus
* Courier
There are still some caveats:
* Mutt may not always handle dropped connections very well. For this reason
it does its best to keep connections alive. But if it fails at this, you
will probably have to leave mutt uncleanly, and may, eg, lose the message
you had been working all day on. Save your work!
* The browser is kludgy - it is unintuitive, has occasional difficulties
with namespaces, and doesn't support creating new IMAP folders. Complain
away, this will probably get heavily rewritten in 1.3.
* I recommend you not get too fancy with multiple open sesions to the same
IMAP server. It mostly works, but you may lose flags updates etc, and the
behaviour is heavily dependent on which server you are using.
* under some circumstances, the index view may become corrupted - that is,
the headers in the index won't match the message you download. This is
believed to be fixed late in 1.3, but the changes are extensive enough
that they probably won't be backported.
Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and/or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version,
options, stack-trace and .muttdebug files are a plus. You may also use the
muttbug script to send bugs to the automated bug-tracking system at
bugs.guug.de.
Brendan Cully
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