[haiku-development] Re: Ready to go for R1/Alpha4 yet?
- From: Donn Cave <donn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 08:49:31 -0700 (PDT)
Quoth pulkomandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>
> Given the lack of progress on the IMAP rewrite, I guess the best
> solution for now is a huge red text warning in the release notes, and a
> pointer to Beam.
Might be better to disable IMAP support?
I use my own IMAP client and am frankly afraid to start up the mail
daemon, but just from reading the README - you can trash your IMAP
folder by doing something to your disk files? <hair-raising emoticon>
Even if the README is fiction and the mail daemon does not support
a bi-directional correspondence between disk and IMAP folders, just
the general notion that Haiku should provide a one-size-fits-all IMAP
client as one of its service daemons is (in my opinion) going to be
a legacy that you will regret forever. IMAP service is too complex
and application-dependent. You gave it a good shot; maybe now is the
time to call this experiment a noble effort and see if we can get by
without IMAP support in the OS.
Donn
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