[Dovecot] Smart IMAP proxying with imapc storage

[Charles Marcus]

On 2011-02-28 11:20 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".

IMAP collector? proxyfetch? proxyconnect?

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Best regards,

Charles