Art J. Cancro writes:

Hi. I saw your review of the Infusion client and the Citadel/UX server, and was quite happy to read it ... because I happen to be the lead developer for Citadel/UX. :)

One thing I thought you might like to know -- the version of Citadel/UX which is about to be released has working IMAP support. So you'll be able to point your "mutt" client at it using IMAP, and it'll work. Private and public folders, it's all there! Incidentally, Citadel also has a web-based front end called WebCit. It's very nice, and once Brian is finished with the calendaring stuff in Infusion, I intend to add web support for that as well.

Then comes the really ambitious undertaking: we're planning to write a MAPI driver for Citadel. This will make Citadel the first open source groupware server to fully support the calendaring/scheduling features in Microsoft Outlook to the same degree that Exchange does. This is significant because on a Citadel network, non-Outlook users don't have to be second class citizens. You'll have full access to the calendar functions (and everything else) regardless of whether you're using Outlook, Infusion, or a web browser.

Just thought you'd like to hear more about what's going on with what I believe is an important project that has lots of potential. Incidentally, I am composing this e-mail to you using the SMTP/IMAP client in Netscape 6.1PR1, connected to my Citadel server.