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

Ok it appears I am not the only one considering current protocol slow.
I read this a while ago so I do not claim to be a discoverer of this
solution.

This is what D. J. Bernstein apparently wrote:


> The bottleneck in mailing list delivery today is SMTP latency. It typically takes more than ten seconds to transfer a message to another Internet host through SMTP. My mail transfer protocol, QMTP, is much faster, but how can qmail tell whether a remote host supports it? Answer: encode the information into the remote host's MX record. A future version of qmail-remote will support this. My target is 100 million remote deliveries per day on a 16MB machine.

http://cr.yp.to/qmail/future.html


> The Quick Mail Transfer Protocol (QMTP) is a replacement for the
   Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). QMTP eliminates any need for
   end-of-line scanning between hosts with the same end-of-line
   convention. It features automatic pipelining and chunking, 8-bit
   transmission, prior declaration of the message size, and efficient
   batching. It is designed to be very easy to implement.


http://cr.yp.to/proto/qmtp.txt
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