> I spent 3 months on the backend making sure it receives email perfectly, and securely, and I could not find a mail server written in Ruby which I could modify

> I spent 3 months on the backend making sure it receives email perfectly, and securely, and I could not find a mail server written in Ruby which I could modify and add features like Funnel to The Sup mail client[1] went through a phase trying to handle IMAP directly, but the consensus was that it was simply too awful. It did yield some colorful code[2], but the fallout was that most people relied on offlineimap[3] to get their mail successfully. [1] http://sup.rubyforge.org/ http://sup.rubyforge.org/ [2] http://sup.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lib/sup/imap.rb http://sup.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lib/sup/imap.rb [3] http://offlineimap.org/ http://offlineimap.org/