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Future of UW IMAP

The most recent version of UW IMAP on UW's FTP server is imap-2007f, which has some bug fixes from the previous version.

On 4 August 2008 the University of Washington Alpine team announced that they would "shift our effort from direct development into more of a consultation and coordination role to help integrate contributions from the community." in the wake of layoffs at the University of Washington's technology division.

Mark Crispin, the former developer of UW IMAP, announced a fork called Panda IMAP and that "an open source distribution is under consideration."

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