While I would normally agree, this is the one "side project" I think they should have kept. We really need an imap5 or some standard which addresses the modern

While I would normally agree, this is the one "side project" I think they should have kept. We really need an imap5 or some standard which addresses the modern problems with email. Who else is going to represent the client perspective and maintain the reference client implementation without being a corporate shill?