[sup-devel] RFC: Nuke remote sources

[Rich Lane <rlane@club.cc.cmu.edu>]

Every few days someone joins the IRC channel complaining of poor
performance or bugs with IMAP sources, and we have to tell them to use
offlineimap or fetchmail instead. This is embarrassing. There are likely
many more users who don't bother to ask on IRC and either unhappily
tolerate IMAP or give up on Sup.

Even with IMAP you still need to store a huge index on disk, so I can't
accept that you'd have enough space for that but not for the actual
messages. You still need to download every message to index it. Your
mails aren't any more secure from someone stealing your laptop. The same
arguments apply to mbox+ssh.

The benefit for me is that I won't have to deal with slow, blocking
sources when converting the UI to EventMachine.

If people agree that this change is a good idea, I assume William will
add a deprecation notice to master for 0.10 and merge this patchset to
next.
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