Subject: which imap to use?

From: [email-masked] (Pok Ng 'd3U&t)
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 23:38:28 GMT

Which imap should I use? IMAP 3.4 or the one comes with pine 3.89 
distribution? Do I need to re-compile pine 3.89 with IMAP 3.4 c-client library,
if I use IMAP 3.4?

Thanks

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 18:21:06 -0700

In general, unless you are a developer or need the very latest and greatest
IMAP, you should use the IMAP that comes with Pine.  The IMAP distribution is
a separate release, primarily for hackers; often it was bit literally minutes
after edits were made to the development sources.  The Pine distribution, on
the other hand, is carefully beta and field-tested prior to release.

Sometimes the IMAP distribution will have bugfixes that a site will need for
Pine; but usually we'll advise a site if this is the case.

Pine 3.90, which should be coming out very soon, will have the latest IMAP
distribution.

Also, IMAP 3.4 will probably be the last version build upon IMAP2 (RFC 1176)
and IMAP2bis.  IMAP 4.0 will support IMAP4, an updated version of the IMAP
protocol that we hope will become IETF Standards-Track later this summer.