World: r3wp

I did try using yahoo mail as the imap server but there was too much 
latency

Have you worked with REBOL/Services?

No

Just the Beer implementation

Does your REBOL client just download a file?

it does an async read of the messages

Oh, IMAP of course

Did the first build run of a stripped Syllable Server last night. 
Worked right away. Stripping out things such as printing and scanning 
reduced the footprint from 370 MB to under 250

That's with all the REBOL goodies still in :-)

How much do the REBOL goodies take up?

what is scanning doing in a server build?

I'm sure someone could think up a scanning server. :-) Document archiving 
or in an embedded device or so

In any case, the regular Syllable Server is meant to be full-featured

The REBOL goodies are tiny, of course

REBOL/Core is 700 KB and that includes rebbase and a bit of documentation

Cheyenne and QuarterMaster combined are 520 KB

The rest is just tens of kilobytes

So there are not likely to be any Server versions with the REBOL 
stuff left out :-)

In contrast, Ruby, which is only there for an Amazon S3 script, and 
which is one of the smallest popular languages, takes 11 MB

Oh, ORCA takes about 450 KB, including the library and the documentation

so, do you have a ruby script that backs up the server data to S3?

Yeah, it's the standard S3Sync tool that's included. Read the Server 
manual for an example of backing up a directory

By the way, I got us on DistroWatch, the main index of Linux distributions:

http://distrowatch.com/syllable

That's great.

Yeah, should get us some attention

Is ORCA still in development?

Yes. It's certainly not finished :-)

Should have read: still being developed.

So how close are you for a full Rebol clone?

I know. :-)

Karl sporadically makes bug fixes. I will start doing that, too, 
and enhancements, when I get to it

I don't think it's ever going to be a full clone, because REBOL keeps 
developing

A server appliance ready yet?

No, I'm out visiting several conferences to promote Syllable Server. 
Giving a talk on Saturday

Porting and configuring Dovecot and RebelBB will take some time, 
anyway

Had ,many downloads?

Around 500 at a rough estimate so far

Much less than for Desktop, but not too shabby for a console server 
without an installer

no installer will put people off!

well, until the vm is released :)

I know. I didn't take it out, though

didn't take out what?

The installer. It just doesn't exist :-)

will you write an orca installer?  Or rebol one?

A new ORCA one, combined with Syllable Desktop

so, no gui then?

Syllable GUI on Desktop, maybe a remote REBOL GUI on Server

A rebol gui thru ssh to the server?

No, REBOL/Services