11 Sep
2005
11 Sep
'05
3:05 p.m.
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 06:45 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
imapproxy maintains a stateful connection between the imap server and the web server, so that a reconnection/authentication to imap isn't needed every time the webmail user does something. Saves cpu cycles bigtime...
BTW: we use horde/imp for our webmail
Is it hard to install? Is there any down side to it?
Just don't let regular users connect to it. Its design is to run everything in one process, so a security hole in it could give the attacker full access everyone's IMAP traffic. If only trusted webmail app can access it, there are a lot less potential ways to break it.