use valgrind / Re: SIGSEGV in cyrus-imapd 3.0.7 mupdate

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

>> out of curiosity, why is mupdate multi-threaded in the first place?
>
> I asked around last week but it seems like that answer has been lost to
> history.  It was added a long time ago, so it might have been a "threads
> are cheaper than processes" decision.  The initial commit for
> imap/mupdate.c (2001) describes it as "added mupdate for possible
> lightweight acap replacement", but I don't know what "acap" was!

I know that, because I still use one of the very few clients that support 
ACAP, and I used to run my own ACAP server so I could use it:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_Configuration_Access_Protocol>
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