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Subject: Re: pop-before-smtp (was Re: FreeInet and checking mail?)
From: Alexander Nosenko (naetitul.ru)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 09:21:53 CDT

----- Original Message -----
From: Brad Knowles <blkskynet.be>
> My humblest apologies. I now understand that to support the
> features of the Unified Messaging System that we're in the process of
> building on behalf of one specific customer, we have to support
> uploads via IMAP, because that is how the fax-to-e-mail and
> voicemail-to-e-mail conversion processes function.
>
> I had no idea the depths of total friggin' cluelessness that went
> into the IMAP protocol design. I have a new-found and very
> deep-seated loathing and hatred for Mr. Mark R. Crispin.

Well they got you :-)
No sane person will ever try to scale IMAP server even to few thousand
(simultaneous) users. It isn't "shot and forget" protocol SMTP is. Question
is, why it have to be done at all?
IMAP is designed for in-house mailservers and scales quite well (just don't
put more than a 1000 users on any given server ;-) - put an old rusty linux
box with imapd at every floor and be happy while Postfix does your bulk
transfer on Sun cluster.
IMAP is quite good for "personal use". Of course if someone wants to service
big mailing list via IMAP uploads... "...the computer vendors ought to love
him ..."

Regards,
Alexander Nosenko <naetitul.ru> 

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