[Dovecot] Smart IMAP proxying with imapc storage

[Willie Gillespie]

On 2/28/2011 9:20 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 20:17 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Some potential (future) uses for imapc include:
>>
>>   * Locally caching IMAP proxy
>>    * Maybe even fully transparent proxy to client, so at office it would
>> be using Dovecot proxy while at home it would connect directly to remote
>> server. (A bit tricky with SSL connections, but possible I'd think.)
>>   * Filtering proxy that modifies messages on the fly
>>   * Fixing Exchange's (and everyone else's) IMAP support by being in
>> front of it
>
> Anyone have good ideas what this thing could be called? :) Calling it
> "proxy" would confuse it with the dummy proxying feature of Dovecot. And
> calling it "smart proxy" isn't very clear either what it does,
> especially since I don't think it even is a proxy really.
>
> So far the best I've come up with is a buzzwordy "IMAP accelerator".

Accelerator would work since a good use could be at the edge of a 
company branch network... especially if it had a "prefetch = yes" option 
and was given sufficient disk space.