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General Software Discussion / Re: TheBat email client v4 (early alpha) - some observations
« on: January 24, 2008, 07:01 PM »Still, is that a valid reason? Majority rules?It's a business decision.
If you will spend a year on IMAP support, how much will it increase your sales?
Or have your client support POP, with some basic IMAP, risking some sales lost.
Note I'm not supporting their decision...you asked why those programs don't have IMAP, I offered my best guesses.
I don't really care if others are lax in patching their OS. Are you saying that it is the email client developers' job to protect the users who do not practice any security at the expense of other users? Oh, please! Those fools aren't using Pocomail or The Bat! anyway, right?Not sure about The Bat! as it has different average user profile than Pocomail.
Generally email developers job is to decide whom to target and how to differentiate their application. Those whom Pocomail targets ("I heard somewhere that Outlook is evil" or "Outlook doesn't work for me") are more of a mainstream users that The Bat! target group. You say fools, I say majority of users.
I'm not defending them actually. Any email application shall IMHO target full email functionality. That they are a bit slow at getting there, might simply be because there is no or little money in it.
Email applications are tough business, many good clients ceased to be developed in last few years, so good decisions in terms of where to spend the development time are crucial. And it's more on the business decision (can we afford to spend the coding time on this) than the technological decision (oh we have poor support for an important part of emailing functionality like IMAP is)
I think you are mixing up IMAP and MAPI, true?I'm sorry for the typo, of course "MAPI has a history of security threats" and it shall read that I'm not supporting their "no MAPI" stance. (Which has actually changed recently...).
They are not/were not against IMAP as far as I can tell, again I'm sorry for that typo.
Just taking too long to implement it (IMAP) fully as far as I can tell.