Offlineimap is dead, long live offlineimap?

Dominic LoBue dominic.lobue at gmail.com
Thu May 20 04:03:37 BST 2010


On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Dan Poirier <poirier at pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2010-05-18 at 10:00, Dominic LoBue <dominic.lobue at gmail.com> wrote:
>> To combine an answer to your number 3 with the Jim's note about John's
>> comment on the sad state of imaplib: I have been working on a new
>> high-level IMAP library for python, and a rewrite of OfflineIMAP. I'm
>> prepared to support it by fixing bugs, answering questions, and adding
>> much-desired features; but progress is slow, and frankly I could use
>> help.
>
> Any connection to this new imap library?
> http://imapclient.freshfoo.com/
>
> If not, maybe you and the developer of that library could join forces.
>
>
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Dan,

No, no relation at all. IMAPClient just wraps the standard imaplib
library with some convenience functions.

My library is rewrite from the ground-up (which is _the_ reason the
whole project has taken me so freaking long. IMAP is complicated!).

-- 
Dominic LoBue




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