[Dovecot] Dovecot as a smart IMAP proxy

[Gaël STEPHAN]

Hm, maybe you should look at perdition ( http://freshmeat.net/projects/perdition/ )
which may already have all the features you want... :)

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:19:22 +0100, Dominik Saar <dominik.saar at 1und1.de> wrote:
> Hi, a nice feature is that dovecot can archive mails in condensed form
> like a folder INBOX.archive ???
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> 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?