Which IMAP client does one use at the end of 2012

ribasushi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

So I went to search for an IMAP client and walked away humbled by the size of the search space. I welcome recommendations for a stable basic IMAP client that I can use to reliably:

Open particular messages (preferrably in some structured format, don't know which library is a good pick for object mapping either)
Set seen/deleted flags
Copy/Move messages between folders

Note!: This is not a how do I question, this is a there are too damn many ways to do it question.

Cheers

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Re: Which IMAP client does one use at the end of 2012 by tobyink (Canon) on Oct 26, 2012 at 05:37 UTC
Aha! It's a trick question! The answer is "none" because the world is going to end on the 21st of December! :-) Until then though, use Mail::Box::IMAP4 because it integrates with the rest of the very awesome Mail::Box suite. `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]
Re^2: Which IMAP client does one use at the end of 2012 by Anonymous Monk on Oct 26, 2012 at 12:49 UTC
No, then we start using `Mail::PonyExpress` and `Mail::SemaphoreFires`.	[reply]
Re^2: Which IMAP client does one use at the end of 2012 by ribasushi (Pilgrim) on Oct 27, 2012 at 10:08 UTC
Hmmm... given the amount of outstanding bugs and the explicit "this is a work in progress" statement, I don't feel too comfortable with it ;( Will keep looking Thanks though!	[reply]
Re^3: Which IMAP client does one use at the end of 2012 by tobyink (Canon) on Oct 27, 2012 at 10:22 UTC
According to rt.cpan.org, it has 3 outstanding bugs. I don't think that's a lot for such an ambitious project. By contrast, Moose has 50 open bugs and is widely considered a useful and stable piece of software. There is a word for software which is not "work in progress". That word is "abandonware". `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]
Re^3: Which IMAP client does one use at the end of 2012 by Anonymous Monk on Oct 27, 2012 at 10:21 UTC
Hmmm... given the amount of outstanding bugs and the explicit "this is a work in progress" statement, I don't feel too comfortable with it ;( Are you talking about Mail::Box? Where do you see "work in progress" statement?	[reply]