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Mail API Criteria

Criteria for IMAP


  1. Pipelining
  2. IMAP syntax call efficency (Namespace, Calls, Permissions)
  3. SSL / TLS support
  4. Ease of Use
  5. Overall Performance
  6. Ability to handle quirks in various IMAP server implementations
  7. IMAP Authentication Schemes (Plain, Kerberos, etc.)
  8. Non-Blocking vs. Blocking
  9. Open Source Non-GPL
  10. Actively Maintained
  11. Real world tested



Criteria for RFC 2822 Message Parsing


  1. Handle badly formatted messages
  2. Performance
  3. Ease of use
  4. Handle parsing of complex messages in to mesage body / header objects neatly and efficently
  5. i18n Support
  6. Open Source Non-GPL
  7. Actively Maintained
  8. Real world tested



Criteria for SMTP


  1. Authentication
  2. SSL / TLS
  3. Ease of use
  4. Pipelining
  5. Open Source Non-GPL
  6. Actively Maintained
  7. Real world tested


-- BrianKirsch - 21 Apr 2004

How about real-world experience, or at least test experience? How about actively under development? We've discussed these; might as well throw them in...

-- LisaDusseault - 21 Apr 2004

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