OT: Enhanced IMAP protocol

[Zachariah Mully]

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 13:08 -0500, Dale Ghent wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2010, at 10:05 AM, ram wrote:
> 
> > Everyone need not implement it. 
> > If  the protocol is available , I definitely know thunderbird will
> have at least one extension within 2 days :-) 

> As Rob put it, user credential management is really outside the scope
> of a email storage and retrieval system. Leave this aspect up to
> software designed to do that very thing which, by and large, would
> also do it better. Cyrus-IMAP and other mail systems should be
> focusing on enhancements which are relevant to mail and, as far as
> protocol extensions go, be useful to as many clients as possible.


I'd be surprised if whatever webmail package you were using didn't offer
some kind of password management. We're using Horde because of its
passwd and Ingo (sieve) modules that allow people to manage the password
and filters from one interface.

Z