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- > > 1. access to the host's quota control mechanism, where one exists
- > This is difficult to do in any sort of general way. One problem is that
- > different implementations have different interpretations of quotas.
-
- why not return percentage of quota used so far, according to the system
- (e.g. use the 'quota' command on SunOS) - if the system is inaccurate,
- that's too bad, but it may be accurate.
-
- > Modern-day c-client does detect and clean up properly when quota problems hit.
-
- Er, how? Do you mean the c-client in the Washington distribution has
- agreed a private protocol (e.g. a text in a BAD message) to pass this
- information on?
-
- > > 5. forwarding (user-initiated, i.e. in a session)
- > Could you explain this? I don't quite understand what you mean. Do you mean
- > forwarding a message or altering your mail forwarding or ??
-
- I mean sending on a mail message at the server (i.e. in a mailbox) without
- having it delivered to the client and then sent back via SMTP. Apart from
- being more efficient, if the user gets a MIME message that breaks their
- client (e.g. by being humungously large), server-end forwarding might be
- the only means of passing the message on to the system administrator.
- Ideally it should accept an attached note, and encapsulate the original
- mail using MIME. But then you're half way to a 'send mail' function.
-
- > > 6. mail sending
- > I suggest a review of the IETF-REMMAIL@UMich.EDU discussion to avoid rehashing
- > the same points over again. It's an emotional topic; the `pro' side is
- > defending what they consider to be the side of simplicity (of a sort) and
- > authentication (again, of a sort)
-
- I guess 'draft message handling' would be more accurate. I wouldn't
- particularly mind if a client had to extract draft messages out of the
- IMAP2 server and then post them off using SMTP. What I am trying to get
- out of is a situation where a user is tied to one system because all
- their drafts are stored there. Our users want to treat mail like a
- telephone network - walk up to the nearest PC or Mac and there you are,
- complete with draft messages, user preferences etc.
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- From: John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@cmu.edu>
- To: IMAP Interest List <IMAP@cac.washington.edu>
- Subject: Re: IMAP2 futures?
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- Beak: is Not
-
- Unfortunately, the CMU hackers have been too bogged down in issues
- like user surveys, requirements documents, and beginning-of-semester
- firefighting to get any real progress done on a mail management
- protocol.
-
- AMDS (the Andrew Message Delivery System) has the forwarding
- information in the "White Pages" user directory component. Users
- change their mail forwarding with the same mechanism they use to
- change their office phone number, though many client programs provide
- more direct support for changing the former than the latter.
-
- I tend to share Mark's reluctance about anything with a name starting
- with "X.". There is a directory service named "CSO/ph" or similar
- that seems simple. I haven't examined it in detail, but I believe it
- deserves looking into.
-
- --
- _.John G. Myers Internet: jgm+@CMU.EDU
- LoseNet: ...!seismo!ihnp4!wiscvm.wisc.edu!give!up
-
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