Re: mutt 1.3 imap stuff merge ?

[Jules Bean <jules jellybean co uk>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 07:36:30PM +0100, Carlos Morgado wrote:
> 
> 
> I looked at mutt 1.3 (devel) imap stuff and it looks nice. 
> It doe ssl, gss, cram and folder browsing. Is anyone looking at that ? maybe 
> it's time for a merge :) (any grand plans for balsa/imap) ?
> The security stuff seems pretty straight forward to port but the folder
> browsing i'm not so sure. Wasn't someone working on that ? (the GUI part at
> least - at the very least it's needed at config time)

Last I looked at the IMAP code in libmutt it was absolutely horrible
--- infested with 'hand-coded' parsing using strchr, when in fact IMAP
responses have a nice LISPy format and are nicely susceptible to a
generic parser.

Is the 1.3 code any better?

The other thing to bear in mind is whether or not we are considering,
as was once discussed, implementing 'camel' support. 'camel' is the
gnome mail source backend which is behind evolution, and gives a
consistent access to, e.g., normal folder, mh folders, IMAP folders,
and I think NNTP (or maybe that's only planned)

Jules

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