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On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:51:20 -0700, "Michael Carter" cartermichael@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a developer on the Orbited project (http://www.orbited.org), which provides a TCPSocket interface in javascript (emulated over HTTP using ajax and comet.) This TCPSocket allows true bi-directional communication between a web browser and an arbitrary tcp server.
Interesting... TCP over HTTP over TCP ;)
Coincidentally, we have just began work on a JavaScript IMAP client. With it, building a webmail app should be *entirely* a UI concern. The good news is that our Socket interface is very stable and is being used in production for protocols like IRC for webchat. The bad news is that none of the the Orbited developers have experience with the IMAP protocol.
We are putting all of our protocol implementations in the soon-to-launch js.io project (www.js.io). As soon as we have any kind of IMAP client prototype, I'll let you know. In the meantime, would anyone be interesting in helping us develop the imap client? Its 100% pure JavaScript, and will greatly ease the development of feature-rich webmail, as a webmail deployment will become a matter of simply running Dovecot, the js.io.imap client, and an HTML gui.
Maybe you can have a look at http://decimail.org/index.html - I never tried it though. Somebody posted a link to it on the Roundcube Webmail mailing list (http://lists.roundcube.net/mail-archive/dev/2008-07/0000023.html), that's how it got my attention.
Patrick.
STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. http://www.star-group.net/ Phone: +86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779
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