Re: Comments on IM2000

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:11:07PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
> http://pobox.com/~b.candler/doc/misc/im2000.html

I don't know that I agree with all your points there.  Though I'd have
to think a bit more to decide for sure.

The interesting thing about this commentary is that it suggests a path
forward for the im2000 protocol.

The problem with im2000 has always been that SMTP is the standard
mail protocol, and no one really wants to deal with implementing an
alternative.

But, as a replacement for IMAP, all of a sudden the idea starts taking
life.

In principle, at least, you could have im2000 with smtp as a message
source, and you could build up a fairly nifty set of mail client
applications around it.  You don't get any spam relief this way, but
you do get some of the other benefits if you use some variant as a mail
folder management system.

There's the obvious temptation to go overboard (I think using SOAP would
be going overboard, for example), but if it's kept simple and clean it
has potential.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul