[turba] Re: [core] Webmail and IMSP

[Jan Schneider]

Quoting Martin <veg at gold.ac.uk>:

> Hello core,
> firstly I just want to say how impressed I am by IMP 3.x - we've been
> using IMP here (Goldsmiths College, University of London) for
> several years now and will shortly be switching to IMP 3. Our Staff
> and students really love the system and I'm confident that they'll like
> the new one even more. It's great to see open-source development working
> so brilliantly.

Thanks!
 
> Secondly - IMSP:
> We use Mulberry with Cyrus IMAPd and IMSPd. Our apps guys
> have been whinging for a long time about the lack of IMSP support in IMP
> -
> and dropping very unsubtle hints about SilkyMail. I don't like silkymail
> for many, many, reasons (despite quite liking Mulberry and Cyrus Daboo)
> and so have resisted.
> 
> Last week I installed IMP 3.2 and was delighted by the 'Driver' interface
> to turba. It took just an afternoon to hack IMSP addressbook support into
> it. Superb.
> 
> So far I've only got it configured as read-only but it seems that
> extending it to be more functional will be an easy job. Regardless, even
> read-only support is "what they want" so life is good.
> 
> Is IMSP support likely to be something you would be interested in
> including ? I know many sites using Silkymail do so *only* for its IMSP
> support. If they could run IMP I'm sure they would.
> 
> Be interested to know what you think about this - even though IMSP is
> almost moribund, it could be an interesting addition.

Definitely. Please send and discuss what you have to the turba mailing list.
If you already have working code and it follows our coding standards,
patches against CVS HEAD will very likely find their way to the code tree.

Jan.

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