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Re: [imap5] Feature set? - was Re: Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP

Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> Thu, 16 February 2012 10:25 UTC

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From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
To: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>, Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>, Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>, "Discussion on drastically slimming-down IMAP." <imap5@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [imap5] Feature set? - was Re: Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP
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On Thu Feb 16 10:04:10 2012, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> As for the ACAP server - the world is moving, for the better I  
> think, to
> "you enter your email address and password, and it just works".   
> That's
> the minimum short of a single-signon solution.  One thing that  
> uniquely
> identifies you and one thing that's secret.  Entering the ACAP  
> server
> address as a third datapoint is 50% more overhead, and that's the  
> 50%
> that you need to look up somewhere, because you already know your
> email address and password.
> 
> Which is a vote from me for "yes, SRV option makes sense".

Oh, totally agree. Discovery is awesome, user-configuration is  
insane. I don't see there's any valid argument the other way.

Dave.
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