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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: Moving away from MS Mail 3.2 post office
From:       Don Sanders <sanders () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-09-25 11:55:49
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > The following was posted to slashdot and might be interesting to this
> > list:
> >
> > "background: I'm currently researching this area for my company. We're
> > trying to create a nice MS Independent infrastructure, moving away from
> > MS Mail 3.2 post office (Using Windows Messaging/Schedule+ clients).
> > (...)
>
> It's always interesting to hear, what reasons people have for selecting
> the applications they work with. It's often just one point, which makes
> the difference and keeps people using Windows.
>
> In this case it's not that bad. It's not Windows, only Netscape. But
> what prevents him to use KMail is the missing IMAP support. So the
> question is: What's the status of IMAP support in KDE?

There is none. We have had several (twenty or so) people volunteer to help 
with IMAP support over the last few years but no one has implemented anything 
functional yet.

This year we have talked several times about how to implemented IMAP support 
in KMail and how an IMAP kioslave should work, I have a good idea how things 
should work now.

Recently several people have volunteered to help write an IMAP slave, I have 
tried to convince them to start with a very basic kioslave (log in, list 
messgages, get a message, delete a message, log out) but, well, they 
volunteered recently and I'm not sure if any progress has been made, I'd be 
interested to know how they are doing.

The demand for IMAP support in KDE is huge.

BFN,
Don.

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