[mkovach]

Ahh, Lovely Ada. When I was a wee lad, toiling as an Email consultant, having my mind slowly destroyed by Sendmail configurations, the constant fear induced by anything related to Microsoft and Email, and, well, let's not mention Lotus Notes, some wounds never heal, I had the grand idea of writing a secure collection of Email tools.

This included SMTP, IMAP, POP3 daemons, and various other tools. I was going to write them all in Ada. I had a basic SMTP daemon that would accept mail and deliver it. But then, one of the various Outlook worms generated a ton of revenue at the expense of sleep, hygiene, and dignity, and I decided to get out of the Email business ASAP.

Still wish I would have kept working with Ada. I really liked it, and one could write tight code with it.

[touisteur]

Look up Ada Web Server :-) no IMAP though. And no QUIC yet, sadly. I hope someone is going to write a whole HTTPS stack using RecordFlux. One can dream.

[mkovach]

I have actually looked at it, in my endless quest to stop having Naviserver/AOLserver be my favorite web server. ;->

I'm going to be giving it another go here in a bit, I got a small little personal project where I'm going to make a serious attempt to curse at it for a bit.

[touisteur]

I'm actually curious whether someone has formalized message formats/grammar, protocol specs (state management, timing specs,...) for QUIC or IMAP, in some parseable form other than free-form text.