For most of this week I have been working on an IMAP client written in Erlang to be part of the http://www.erlmail.com project and I’m happy to say that I am almost finished with it.
I have two or three commands to finish before I start doing some real world testing and two or three commands that I am not planning on implementing at this time. I haven’t decided if I need the search command for what I am planning on doing next.
I am planning on writing an Erlang based web-mail application on top of YAWS. to my knowledge this would be the first 100% Erlang web-mail application. This will be one of a series of web applications I am writing based on YAWS and the third time I have written a web-mail client. The previous two time I wrote them in Cold Fusion.
If the speed of the IMAP client that I have been working with is any indication of the performance of the web-mail application I will be working on (hopefully before the weekend) I expect it to be amazingly fast with moderate hardware.
Once I get the major features working and the bugs worked out I plan on releasing the very first build of http://www.erlmail.com. This will be Build 0.0.1 and the IMAP client will be the only component that will be working 