[Dovecot] OT: Icecap [was: Re: MANAGESIEVE patch v3 for dovecot 1.0.rc28]

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 16:49 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 3/26/2007 Timo Sirainen (tss at iki.fi) wrote:
> > 
> > BTW. I'm also planning on adding a new protocol to Dovecot some day 
> > in an external package: http://icecap.irssi2.org/ 
> 
> So... ?
> 
> Dovecot will act as an IRC chat server?

By "external package" I meant that Dovecot's standard distribution would
have absolutely no knowledge of it. It could just be configured to use
the separately distributed icecapd to run if wanted.

It already runs standalone or executed via SSH. So Dovecot would just
provide it easy way to support TCP connections, TLS and authentication.
I'm not all that interested in using those myself though, SSH is
better. :)

And as for the discussion about how useful the whole Icecap thing is,
we'll see. It's already 1,5 years old and it hasn't had much development
since the first few months. I still don't much like screen+irssi
combination for IRCing though (and other clients/bouncers even less),
and I have some nice ideas for an IRC client that are pretty easy to
implement with Icecap (and if something is not, it's still easy to
change the protocol).

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