Re: [imap5] Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP

Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> Thu, 09 February 2012 13:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [imap5] Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP
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On Thu Feb  9 13:41:16 2012, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 01:50 PM, Dave Cridland wrote:
> > To address both, I think I could build a useful IMAP replacement  
> that
> > ran the metadata, push, and folder management over XMPP, and the  
> content
> > access over HTTP, quite easily.
> 
> If you wish to be faithful to history, then the right thing would  
> be to
> run that on TCP ports 20 and 21. Ahem.

Quite - the design is not far off.

Obviously if we did use port 20, then we could also send IAC WILL  
RANDOMLY_LOSE, and come full circle.

Dave.
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