Introducction and Disclaimer

Introducction and Disclaimer

Qim is ment to interchange Mail between people, using the im2000 aproach, meaning that sending a Mail to other person in reality is posting it to the local server and notifying the recipient. The recipient in turn retrieves the message at his/her convenience - soner, later or never.

Qim has a lot of limitations:

You can send only one message to one recipient at a time.
It is not guaranteed, that attachments are handled correctly
Replies to Qim-mails do not have the same effect as normal Email replies
There is none of the security or encrypting features implemented, which im2000 is expected to have, in fact
a malicious network participant who figures out that you have Qim installed perhaps can fill up your computer and remote ones with sensless junk, both as Email and as disk space on the local server.
You need to have Qmail as mail storage server you use and
you need to have a local account on this mail storage server and
you need to send you Qim message from this account and
this mail storage server has to be reachable by normal Email.
For each Qim message posted, several local Email messages are sent back and forth on the mail storage server, multiplicating your syslogs.

However:

The goal of Qim is, to fix most of these drawbacks (with your help:-), while:

Using and expandig a im2000 like Infrastructure
Not to have to write special clients to send and receive Qim messages
Not to have to write special server software to test features of im2000

My hope is, that a bunch of people start to set up and use Qim-servers and begin to feel so uncomfortable about it's drawback, that they start to fix them.

Georg Lehner - homepage

Introducction and Disclaimer