GNU Mailutils

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 09:09 +0530, Shuvam Misra wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I know this is OT but any of you have any idea about this toolkit/system?
> I discovered it accidentally today --- didn't even know the GNU project
> had its own IMAP and POP3 servers in addition to client-side libraries. I
> wonder how good their IMAP daemon is, in terms of performance,
> administration flexibility, and stability.
> I know writing a good IMAP daemon is no joke -- it's as complex as a
> full-fledged NNTP/Usenet system, added to the complexities of that
> asynchronous IMAP4 protocol.
> These guys even have a good domain: http://mailutils.org
> Just curious, that's all.

Never played with it [GNU has many project of questionable point; given
that truly Open Source, and excellent, implementations exist of
different things].  Looking at Git it seems like they are actively
working on it.

Mailutils has been around since dirt, but I've never heard of it being
used as a server.  I do know that their IMAP support [client-side] is
crap which is why everyone uses/used c-client [derived from UW].

The manual for the imap4d services [which runs under xinted, yuck!] is
full of "The information in this node may be obsolete or otherwise
inaccurate. This message will disappear, once this node revised.)"