[Dovecot] Dovecot as a smart IMAP proxy

[Dominik Saar]

Hi, a nice feature is that dovecot can archive mails in condensed form
like a folder INBOX.archive ???




On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:24 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Do you see a use for an IMAP proxy where the proxy would be able to
> execute hooks which modify mail contents, such as transparent
> encrypting/decrypting mails, or maybe some virus-filtering? It would
> need at least some kind of IMAP command/reply parsing capabilities, so
> it might be able to do all kinds of other things.
> 
> Maybe one potential use case would be Cyrus Murder-like proxying to
> multiple IMAP servers to distribute the mailboxes. But that might be
> done better as an imap process plugin, or maybe as IMAP mail storage
> backend.
> 
> Anyway, the reason I'm asking this is because I was asked to add mail
> encryption/decryption capabilities to Dovecot's IMAP proxy, but I'm not
> sure what would be the best way to handle this. In any case it would be
> a plugin or a new binary which is executed instead of imap binary, but
> can I do it in a way that would actually be useful for Dovecot project
> in general?