Re: [MORG] WGLC on draft-ietf-morg-inthread-00

[Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>]

On Mar 26, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:

> > It also begs the question: why the heck I would want to implement  
> > any of this if I were a server.
> >
> > What is the business case to expend the substantial resources (real  
> > $$$) to implement these extensions?  Where are the customers who  
> > want these extensions?  How many additional sales will be made if  
> > these extensions are implemented?
..
> (FWIW, in my case the capabilities are valuable but providing an  
> IMAP interface is of dubious value.)

In my case it's pretty much the same. The functionality is required to  
implement features that customers want (like "gmail-like conversation  
views"), but it's mainly used in configuration files. The IMAP part  
just came without any extra code, so it would be nice to get it  
standardized. If INTHREAD doesn't become a standard, Dovecot will  
still have a X-INTHREAD search key.

But I do find THREAD=REFS very useful as an alternative to  
THREAD=REFERENCES.