I did not realize he had written UW imapd. All I knew about that was that it was full of holes, and it's the number one reason I avoided IMAP for as long as I did. When running servers for my users, I only offered POP3 for as long as possible since someone (Solar Designer) had gone to the trouble of designing popa3d with security as a first-class requirement.
Perhaps these holes were related to what you said about failing to grasp the event-based notification scheme. It assumes a certain level of knowledge about how the underlying system works. Maybe his talents were elsewhere.
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I did not realize he had written UW imapd. All I knew about that was that it was full of holes, and it's the number one reason I avoided IMAP for as long as I did. When running servers for my users, I only offered POP3 for as long as possible since someone (Solar Designer) had gone to the trouble of designing popa3d with security as a first-class requirement.
Perhaps these holes were related to what you said about failing to grasp the event-based notification scheme. It assumes a certain level of knowledge about how the underlying system works. Maybe his talents were elsewhere.
Dovecot is an IMAP server that is designed with security in mind...