Linked by Jon Jensen on Tue 26th Aug 2008 02:53 UTC, submitted by Ryan Masters
The Book of IMAP: Building a Mail Server with Courier and Cyrus, by Peer Heinlein and Peer Hartleben, is a quality resource for any serious mail administrator. The approach taken is direct, but at the same time it's very expansive, setting this book apart from most others I have read. It's packed full of rich examples which are used to solidify the topic being covered. At several places the authors reach out to explain when the subject is addressing ambiguous or otherwise undocumented information which is to great advantage to the reader and worthy of recognition.
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This is a huge amount of time. Searching messages on a web-based forum takes one second. I shouldn't expect an IMAP server to be slower. In both cases you're searching for a phrase in a list of messages. The IMAP server architecture makes the whole process slow. Five minutes is way too much to wait for.
Thunderbird also has an extension that uses folders to store this information but I disagree with this practice. Folders should be used only for messages, and I would use one single large folder in the first place, each message would be labeled and indexed.
Since when people started using email, calendar, address book and collaboration tools at the same time in the same application (this is why Zimbra, Lotus Notes and MS Outlook are so popular in companies). Needs are evolving and IMAP needs to extend its functionalities to meet these needs, especially for companies.