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- Cory -
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- I am sorry for the difficulties you have encountered in the IMAP toolkit
- distribution. Let me explain what the purpose and function of the IMAP
- toolkit distribution is.
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- The IMAP toolkit distribution is separate from the Pine distribution for
- a very good reason. People who wish to run IMAP in a production setting are
- *STRONGLY* urged to use the IMAP software that is bundled with Pine. The
- Pine-bundled IMAP software has been thoroughly tested and frozen for a
- significant period of time prior to release.
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- The IMAP distribution, on the other hand, is intended to give a snapshot
- of my development sources, as a benefit to IMAP software developers who need
- the very latest software and are willing to risk the possibility of bugs. I
- update the IMAP distribution fairly quickly after changing my sources; shortly
- after it's been shown to compile on my NeXT and seems to run. Usually, it's
- good working code, but it has NOT been exhaustively tested.
-
- From time to time, I freeze the IMAP distribution at a stable point and
- start a new one. 2.2 is the last frozen version of the IMAP distribution; 2.3
- is the current version and is still under evolution. 2.3 will probably freeze
- when the new NNTP client code ports to DOS.
-
- Please accept my profuse apologies for the confusion. Again, I urge all
- non-developers to use the IMAP software bundled with Pine for production use,
- or, at the least, use the version immediately preceeding the highest version.
- In any case, prudence would suggest not running code which you had to edit in
- order to successfully compile it!
-
- As far as the problems with accessing new mail that you report, I am
- running that code now on my NeXT, and I have not encountered any such
- problems. There has been no changes at all to any of the UNIX mailbox
- drivers. The only changes since the beginning of the year have been to
- 1) fix memory leaks in the news driver and in the default cache manager
- 2) fix an obscure crash in BASE64 decoding
- 3) teach mail_parse_date() about dates of the form ``dd mmm yy''
- 4) add an NNTP client driver
- None of these should have affected imapd in any way.
-
- If you can give me any further information about the problem I will
- research it and come up with a solution.
-
- -- Mark --
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