I haven’t been able to code as much as I would have liked over the past two weeks due to some personal issue that came up. This puts me about three weeks behind where I wanted to be with the IMAP server and still counting.
As of this morning I have one command that I need to fully test; COPY / UID COPY. The code looks finished, but I haven’t gotten to testing it in outlook express yet.
I have one command that needs lots of work still; FETCH / UID FETCH. For anyone who followed me when I was writing the IMAP client you know how much I love the FETCH command. It is a huge command that is more complicated then it needs to be, but I think I am about 40% through it and I have the design pattern down now. It’s pretty much a matter of sitting down and and implementing the rest.
That leaves 4 commands that I am putting off till the next version; STARTTLS, AUTHENTICATE, APPEND and SEARCH / UID SEARCH . I may change my mind on APPEND and include it in this version, but I don’t think so.
After that there is still a lot of work to be done to make the IMAP server RFC compliant. At this point I am intending to make it functional and go for RFC compliance later.
I’m still working with Outlook Express as my test client and I’m hoping to have the test server working (not finished or RFC compliant) within the next two weeks.
