Re: [Imap-protocol] If Crispin were creating IMAP today how would it be different?

"Hoa V. DINH" <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Mar 2015 21:35:53 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Please go ahead.  

(Btw, text protocol doesn’t seem to be an issue with chat app (FYI they use jabber, which is a verbose protocol using XML))



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Hoa V. DINH


On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Imants Cekusins wrote:

> Let's take chat messages as an example. They are fast. much faster
> than email, aren't they? Why? Isn't it a similar concept: text
> (transmitted as bytes) flowing from one browser to another - via an
> intermediate server?
>  
> Web servers are getting more efficient, databases are getting more efficient.
>  
> Why not bring email servers up to speed?

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