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- Steve Hole <steve@edm.isac.ca> writes:
- >2. Who is responsible for the development of the message management
- >protocol? Is there a mailing list for this? What is the status of
- >this effort?
- The CMU team (John Myers and myself) have agreed to spearhead the
- design of this protocol. We have just finished our survey of user
- requirements on campus, and have a final functional requirements
- document for the mail system we will need here (and a draft design
- document).
-
- I expect us to start design of the protocol in a month or so, and you
- _might_ see an implementation in a year. The protocol is likely to be
- very similar to IMAP2bis (probably with some of the same commands for
- subscriptions & such).
-
- > This is becoming a real issue for us. The ability to get and
- >configure services like delivery acknowledgement, read
- >acknowledgments, and automatic reply are a high priority for many of
- >our clients - especially when packages like Microsoft mail are able to
- >do it.
- Delivery acknowledgements are useless (the message will bounce if not
- delivered). Read acknowledgements, and reply are client issues. If
- by "automatic reply" you mean something like the unix vacation
- service, we have that rated as "NICE" meaning we'll consider it if we
- get time (I think putting support for it in either the management
- protocol or the user directory protocol is reasonable).
-
- >4. Is there an agreement or description of where services like
- >automatic reply should be provided - in the MTA or the MUA? X.400
- >specifies the message store (which makes sense), but there is no
- >equivalent in the Internet architecture (I think there should be).
- Anything that can go in the MUA should, IMHO. Keeping the MTA &
- mailstore simple and easy to maintain is very important. Things like
- vacation replies, and automatic filing of incoming mail will probably
- be put at the mailstore end of the MTA.
-
- >5. There was some mention on work being done to implement
- >lightwieght directory access protocols for getting X.500 information
- >quickly. Could someone point me to these individuals again? This is
- >very important to us as a mechanism for distributing public keys for
- >PEM.
- There's a protocol called CSO/ph which we're going to look into. If
- it's not good enough, we'll design & write our own.
-
- - Chris Newman
- Carnegie Mellon University Computing Services
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- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 00:23:08 -0700 (PDT)
- From: Mark Crispin <MRC@Panda.COM>
- Subject: re: Some general mail message issues
- To: Steve Hole <steve@edm.isac.ca>
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- On Fri, 25 Sep 1992 11:05:56 -0600, Steve Hole wrote:
- > 1. Is there a mailing list for the discussion of the MIME message format?
-
- The mailing list for MIME is IETF-822@dimacs.Rutgers.EDU.
-
- The issue of integration of PEM with MIME is right now being discussed within
- an `internal group' of MIME/PEM folks. You can check with Marshall Rose or
- Einar Stefferud to get a current status. Presently, PEM in MIME is not
- formally defined yet, so you should not be doing any implementations unless
- you're prepared to be one of the pioneers with arrows in their backs.
-
- I hope that Chris Newman answered questions 2-6 to your satisfaction.
-
- > 6. Is there a todo list for the c-client?
-
- Yes. It's much longer than I would like it to be.
-
- > What are the current priorities for the c-client?
-
- The current focus is to get acceptable DOS/Mac clients going and in particular
- to get PC Pine ready for prime time. I just finished the code to allow local
- file MIME parsing in DOS without requiring you to have the entire message in
- memory. We have a DOS local file format driver; pretty much the mail.txt
- format. None of us are very happy with it; I think we need more of an mh
- style format, while my boss wants a /usr/spool/mail format. Fortunately, c-
- client allows you to write as many drivers as you want.
-
- I hope to be able to get back to development (I don't consider DOS ports
- `development') and in particular getting IMAP2bis fully implemented in c-
- client Real Soon Now.
-
-