[imp] feature request

[Rich Lafferty]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:00:12PM +0100, Yohann Fourteau (yohann.fourteau@shom.fr) wrote:
> Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> >
> > True, but it gets out of date then.  I don't know about you, but
> > I'm getting mails pretty much constantly, so session variables for
> > this aren't much use.
> 
> hum, and to check directly the IMAP server ? I know the cost of such
> an operation, but think to people who have few users and who want
> lots of features when they are with a roaming access.  It seems you
> want to make a webmail gate for only big internet provider with
> 10000 people !

No, we make one that works for as many people as possible. If you want
a specific feature which will cause problems for others, then that's
something you should be implementing as a local modification at your
site. 

(I'm not sure why you think making something work for a provider with
10000 people is bad; if it works with 10,000, it works with 20, but
the converse doesn't stand. Of *course* we want to make it work for
10,000 users. For what it's worth, I found IMP while looking for a
webmail solution for a community of about 25,000 people, although of
course not all of them use IMP simultaneously. There are larger
institutions, such as universities and the US Navy, which presumably
have equivalent or larger userbases, and a handful of ready-to-go
one-size-fits-all server software setups include IMP as well.)

  -Rich

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