[Kolab-devel] Cyrus IMAP 2.5 Likely to Drop ANNOTATEMORE Support

[Doug Finch]

Hello Jeroen,

Our IMAP client (Bynari Outlook Connector) supports both ANNOTATEMORE and METADATA.  We are OK with dropping support for ANNOTATEMORE in favor of METADATA.  

 

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From: kolab-devel-bounces at kolab.org [mailto:kolab-devel-bounces at kolab.org] On Behalf Of Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:00 AM
To: kolab-devel at kolab.org
Subject: [Kolab-devel] Cyrus IMAP 2.5 Likely to Drop ANNOTATEMORE Support

 

Hello all,

Cyrus IMAP 2.5 and beyond is likely to drop support for ANNOTATEMORE[1], pursuing full compliancy with the METADATA[2] RFC.

I figured I would give you this heads-up, as future generations of the Kolab product will ultimately include Cyrus IMAP 2.5.

I'm interested to hear from our various IMAP client implementors, whether or not, and if so, to what extent, this may pose any problems for them. Noted of course, client implementors would be required to both be compatible with ANNOTATEMORE as well as METADATA for as long as legacy Kolab deployments are considered supported. This would include any deployments that are considered using the current version of Kolab today, as well as future deployments of Kolab including Cyrus IMAP prior to 2.5.

Regrettably, in terms of back- and forward compatibility, we have no approved processes, let alone solid timelines, on product development, release and support cycles.

This means Cyrus IMAP 2.5 could be included anywhere in between now and the end of this century... consequently meaning backwards compatiblity would need to preserved for at least as long as we have no general availability release including Cyrus IMAP 2.5.

That said, ultimately, I would want to push out a full KEP on the subject as well.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-daboo-imap-annotatemore-17.txt

[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5464

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