How difficult is it working with the POP3 and SMTP protocols?
The protocols are stable but they are not the most current, like IMAP4, which we’ll be supporting next in Maui. IMAP is going to add the capability for remote replication, and use of folders, plus the ability for partial downloads. These are really basic, longtime features of NotesMail but they just haven’t been included yet in the Internet mail world because it hasn’t had the attention of the industry. And MIME adds support for complex multiple part (including multimedia) messages, which will be stored without any loss of data in Maui. What’s been hardest about this project? Probably the issues around making 4.6 support all the international languages, because, for Internet mail, there are a lot of things you have to do for non-ascii characters — Chinese, Korean and Japanese, and that’s been keeping me real busy. It’s been a great product to work on because the work I’ve been involved in touches a lot of areas of the product, from the lower level protocols up to the interface to the
