Net_IMAP: some considerations about the "PEAR Weekly News" article

in the "PEAR Weekly News for week ending 16 Feb 2003" appears a consideration over my Net_IMAP class which is: "Net_IMAP: Damian Alejandro Fernandez Sosa is developing an userland implementation of IMAP protocol which provides IMAP access to people that dont have IMAP support compiled." I'd want to thanks Mika Tuupola and Pierre-Alain Joye for writing this but I want to make some considerations about the class: * The class is NOT only to "provide IMAP access to people that dont have IMAP support compiled" it is to bring the full potential of IMAP4Rev1 to PHP and PEAR. php's IMAP implementation usues an OLD library (c-client) to provide IMAP,POP and NNTP access. that library is optimized in COMPATIBILITY between the 3 protocols and not in implemmenting the full IMAP specs. * The imap support in php is NOT complete: How can you search A message by The date that message was sent? (SENTON != ON ) Searching my Custom Headers? by UID? by smaller than XXX bytes messages? and larger? (the PHP IMAP's Search implementation is based on RFC1176 (IMAP2) my class in RFC2060 (IMAP4Rev1).) * In php you can only SET an ACL, my class allows to get an ACL, Set, list my own acl's and list myrights in a mailbox. * that about the Cyrus extensions? * ACAP (RFC2245) and IMSP are easy to add to My class (allowing to create and manage configuration, address books, calendars and notes in a IMAP store) Once the Net_IMAPProtocol class's methods are stable, I was Thinking in make a PECL extension with the cmdXXXX methods that return the same values allowing to have the best of the 2 worlds the PHP-only implemmentation and the PECL extension. (SPEED and full protocol Support) Comments? / Ideas?