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From: mrc@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Where Can I Get The IMAP Specification?
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.024011.10286@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 02:40:11 GMT
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In article <2869DA1E.614E@intercon.com> kdb@intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) writes:
>In article <1991Jun26.040642.8535@milton.u.washington.edu>, 
>mrc@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Crispin) writes:
>> A major new revision is in the works and will be released later this
>> summer.
>Who is working on this?

I am.  It's a major update from our April 1991 release (which is still
available on FTPHOST.CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU as imap/imap.tar.Z) and will
incorporate full support for the Borenstein/Freed internet message
bodies Internet Draft (the work of the IETF-822 group).  I've been
part of the development of the draft since its inception to be sure
that the corresponding functions can be incorporated into IMAP.

Once some of the dust settles there will also be an RFC describing the
extensions to IMAP2 to support Borenstein/Freed message bodies.

This new release will also include an IMAP-capable version of Pine,
our local (and very popular!)  Unix-based mail UA for novice users
written by one of my colleagues.  We've done some work in-house, but
none of us are PC experts and it's been slow going.  Various people
and organizations have expressed interest in assisting to port Pine to
the IBM PC, including at least one commercial organization.  There's
always room for more implementations though; to date I'm not aware of
any finished version.