Re: [Savannah-hackers] gnu-socketserver

[Jeff Bailey]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:12:12AM +0000, Nic Ferrier wrote:

> >BTW, GNU Mailutils (address@hidden) has a mostly 
> >functional IMAP server.  You might want to email them to 
> >try and avoid effort duplication.
> 
> Thanks Jeff... I saw the project go onto savannah, as I recall you're
> one of the developers no?

I keep forgetting that you're on cvs-hackers! =)  Yup, I did some of the 
initial design and implementation work.  I haven't seriously hacked on it 
in over a year, but I still handle most of the build environment for 
them, and provide copious verbal abuse on the lists.  I'm also now 
writing some of the clients that I had envisioned for the library.

> I had a brief look... the mailutils IMAP server is written in C and
> I'm working in Java. So that's one difference. As far as I can see the
> current effort doesn't go near fixing my problems. I also suspect that
> you guys wouldn't be interested in a Java based tool.

Alain has said that he would like to reimplement in C++ some day.  It's 
unlikely this project will ever become Java (Although Alain ported the 
JVM to QNX, so he might be interested, I dunno).  It would be worth 
hearing what your problems are, if they can be solved within a C or C++ 
framework.

Question: With Java servers, how do you overcome the overhead of having a 
JVM running for every new server (one for pop3, one for imap).  It seems 
like it could be cost prohibitive.

> Having said that I would be happy to describe the design of my server
> if you're interested and if you can see areas where we might
> co-operate I'd be happy. Otherwise mine will just be free software
> offered by my company and not GNU.

GNU doesn't have a non-competition clause, so it would probably be 
accepted.  There are a number of duplicate programs in Java and C/C++.

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